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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.
- Tell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you where you've gone wrong and what you can do about it.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.
- Debilitating
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father passed away after three years of debilitating disease, which transformed a very strong and bright man into a real wreck. And that is hard. You have to get out of that stronger, if you can, which I was lucky to be able to. I was the eldest of the family, and I had to support my mother and help my brothers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.
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- Nov 07, 2020