- My Soul
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My lord, I will tell you what the case was. I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman, and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship, and be safe.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think we should stop emphasizing race because I think, you know, race is still very, very important, and we have to recognize that and continue to introduce programs to address racial inequities. But we have to widen our vision and also address the growing problems of economic class.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.
- Hard Lesson
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Garden as though you will live forever.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020