- End
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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
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.
- Detail
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it with a layer of automation.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.
- Grabbing
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- Nov 07, 2020