- Never
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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
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.
- Nov 07, 2020
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more you know about somebody's back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices resonate full-body instead of just being quick, quippy one-liners that are just like a bunch of people trying to be clever. Because after a while, cleverness is just really obnoxious!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listening to an underserved population is how you begin to understand them and serve them better.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is Chinese-Taiwanese. I'm from Richmond, Virginia. The community in which I grew up was pretty white. The storybooks you got at school featured white children and an animal, or animals, and as you got older, the novels you were assigned were about, like, the problems of white boys and their dogs.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the expression of and advocating for your values makes you lose a job or a person, then that person/job sorta just... wasn't your heart's tribe.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm okay with not having a super-secure lifestyle because if you're doing what you like, you don't need stuff to fill any empty holes.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone's going to fail at some point. Even if you choose the steadiest career, you're going to go through that.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020