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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
- Stronger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
- River
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- Nov 07, 2020
I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
- Far-Fetched
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- Nov 07, 2020
The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020