- Feeling
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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
- Cheney
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night television.
- Desmond
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.
- Better Ways
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to give people dreams; we have to give people hope. In terms of government, in terms of society, that's our goal. You can't have a group of people that don't dream, that see themselves as dead or in jail.
- Nov 07, 2020
Before 'Cinderella Man,' I didn't box. But I boxed. It's possible. You go and you work hard at things.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wes Anderson is a perfectionist, so you have to just be ready to try it this way, try it this way, try it that way, and then try it this way. And then, once you think you've got it all and it's done, then you're going to be called back in two or three months so you can try it that way and try it this way. You've got to give him all of it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
When actors have the opportunity to play a larger-than-life icon - my wife did it with Tina Turner, and Jamie Foxx did it with Ray Charles - you have to make a decision how you go in. What do you start with? Where do you begin?
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records... we went and watched ballet and orchestras - lots of cool stuff. Which I'm really grateful for - it's pretty nice being introduced to that when you're little.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020