- Earn
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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
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.
- Earner
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that drives me crazy as a professional woman is you'll have bought a suit, and you get home and realize you don't have a shirt to wear with it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.' You just kinda, like, stuff it away until - well, some people stuff it away forever.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of myself as lovable.
- Bigger
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.
- Nov 07, 2020
I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020