- Me
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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
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 2012 Olympics was such a high, but once it was over, I felt really down in the dumps. You don't really look beyond the event which you've spent four years preparing for, and so there's a bit of a comedown.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're young, you think your parents are embarrassing and always saying and doing the wrong things, but as you get older you really appreciate how right they were about so much.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sexuality didn't come into it when I was bullied, but for so many years, being LGBTQ was one of the biggest things you would be bullied for at school. Hopefully, as time goes on, it will be a completely accepted thing that people won't have to think about.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got to be a husband on my visa. Going to Russia can be scary - you've got to compete in front of lots of people who know I've got a husband.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can only do so much in the gym or pool. Seventy per cent of it is physical, but the final 30 per cent is down to the mental capacity to actually control what you can do in competition.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you watch 'Shark Tank,' everything is about off-shore this, off-shore that.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.
- Business Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any interest in being a chef without being on the business side of things, or vice versa, because if you don't make money at the end of the month, you're going out of business.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really, honest to God, didn't know what to read until I was out of college and living in Boston, and someone said, 'Well, why don't you read Hemingway?' And I thought, 'OK. I guess I'll try this Hemingway fellow.'
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few things are totally devoid of any possibility of humor. If you are aware of that possibility and alive to the scene becoming that way, then it just happens naturally. That's what I feel living is like, too. I find a lot of things that make me smile or make me laugh over the course of the day.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you become a creative writer with the idea that you are going to make a whole lot of money, then maybe this isn't the best choice for you.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to write about towns because that's what I remember best. You can put a boundary on the number of characters you insert into a small town. I tend to create a lot of characters, so this is a sort of restraint on the character building I do for a novel.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a little left of center, for sure, with Angels & Airwaves. But even when I get really weird, it's not that weird. It's not like some obscure Sonic Youth record or something. We don't take it quite that far. But what we do like are crescendos, and we do like when a song catches you off guard and it gives you the chills up and down your arms.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020