- Language
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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
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
- Gentleman
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- Nov 07, 2020
A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a 'psychological thriller.' To me, psychological thriller basically means 'a horror movie without the blood.'
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
- Talk
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can talk, you can write.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020