- Great
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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
- Change Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things are always going to evolve and change. You might not always like the direction of it, but people's tastes change.
- Big Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be thankful for all of the things that I've been blessed with, and I've had a great run. I have a huge fan base, and I'm still able to work a lot. I don't know if I'll ever have another big impact record on commercial radio again, but you know, everybody's gonna have to face the reality that their day's gonna come to an end, too.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into it is interesting.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the market, or just, you know, things that take us away from the big questions that we have, those are the things that I think urge us to think about what a poem can offer.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to the chase. Not true!
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to say, 'You're a bum and you can't write. This stinks.' and throw the script in the garbage. The great hope is that they're all going to lift me up on their shoulders and carry me to the streets, singing, 'He's a genius, he's a genius!'
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020