- 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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great power is setting a goal, working hard for it, and achieving it in exactly the way you expected with no consequences and no remainders after the long division is done. But does that happen to anyone? The unexpected always hitches a ride along with everything you planned.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to power as it functions between humans, it all comes down to desire. If you know what someone wants, you can control them. It is as simple as that. And the reverse is also true: If you have control over your own desires, no one will ever own you. As humans, we are plagued with desire - it consumes us, it fuels us, it destroys us.
- Get Married
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned real fast that you need to have a plan of action when changing diapers, or it can get dicey fast.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they're not successful and you don't have the business structure in place, everything will flop.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't realize how beautiful an idea is until you do it with other people. There's this really shimmery, awesome thing when you start finishing a song - where the song just starts writing itself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You think you have the most amazing life by having your dreams come true as a musician and marrying the woman of your dreams. But then you add a lil' baby girl... to the mix, and it's like you've never really lived and loved until she was here.
- Life Is Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is short, so there is no reason why you shouldn't live it to the fullest expression of yourself.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some aspects of the story of 'Power' that clearly are about race in the sense that any one of us now who's black and was raised in this country was raised with a lie, which is, 'You can never be president.' That's not true.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tour is like our bread and butter. You don't really get to experience the band unless you see us live.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The impetus for 'Power' was me writing about my dad, who was an advertising executive and very interested in image. He thought that perception was reality and what people thought of you was what was real about you.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think television is about the characters you want to see again, and so you want to invite these people into your home. And certainly, seeing them get into bad situations and then watching them have to get themselves out, that's always super satisfying.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020