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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
- Thoughts
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can bore for England on the subject of James Bond. But I knew I couldn't do it frivolously; I had to take it very seriously, however much fun I was having. And I had to make myself, you know, absolutely steeped in Bond and in Fleming and that world.
- Bereavement
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stop-and-frisk is not something that you can stop. It is an absolutely basic tool of American policing. It would be like asking a doctor to give an examination to you without using his stethoscope.
- Little Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Broken-windows enforcement is really about controlling behavior to such an extent you change it: If you deal with the little things, you can keep them from going into the big things. Zero tolerance implies zealotry. It's oppressive. And it's not achievable. You're never going to be in a position to eliminate all crime.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Policing has to be done compassionately and consistently. You cannot police differently in Harlem than you're policing downtown. The same laws must apply. The same procedures must be employed. Certain areas at certain times may have more significant crime and require more police presence or more assertiveness, but it has to be balanced.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
- Conscience
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- Nov 07, 2020