- Good
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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
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky to be alive. I'm one of only 40 people who have survived the surgery I had, and when you've been that close to dying, you re-evaluate what's really important to you - and it's nothing to do with fame and money.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Fool If You Think It's Over' is still the only song I've ever not played guitar on, but it just so happened to be my first single, and it just so happened to be a massive hit. It was in the U.S. Top 10 for seven weeks.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Notorious B.I.G.'s album 'Ready to Die' is an incredible chart of a man's life - it begins with his birth, you hear his mother giving birth, and it goes through the decades.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think visual seduction is really a lovely thing. To be able to look at something and feel you want to get closer and closer to it, and as you get closer to it, the more you drop your guard.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doubt is important because it suggests progress. Total certainty can mean there's no assessment of things. Doubt, if you don't panic, can allow newness to come in and challenge something that's an established mode.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts of Memphis - are more liberal for sure. But I grew up, until I was about 13 or 14, in a section called Whitehaven, and then we moved to a suburb called Germantown - which is a pretty conservative area.
- Nov 07, 2020
To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about working in comics is that visually, you're the sole voice. You have to figure out the staging, the lighting, the composition, the character emotions, the action. You get a script, but you're trying to work it out in individual panels. It's a terrific exercise in creative thinking and creative problem-solving.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by 'unbridled' you mean unregulated.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you have an animal and bring another one into the house, it's a very traumatic event. It's a story as old as bringing home a second child from the hospital, when the first child kind of goes, 'Hey, aren't I enough?'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020