- People
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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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't believe I've met the royal family. It's, like, one of those things you never expect to do in your life.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that I've been able to treat people with the respect they've shown me. That's basically the tenet you try to live by. I haven't been successful at it all my life, but that's what I strive for.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn - to an ingredient economy where there will be a kernel of corn that will be designed for fuel, there will be a kernel of corn designed for livestock.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one of the things you get when you're playing golf. You get bad backs, bad necks.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.
- Beautiful Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beautiful thing about the game of golf is you can play good golf and compete well into your later years, and you can't do this in basketball or football or baseball. But in golf, it's a longer live sport.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020