- Great
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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
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's weird, you know? I didn't really envision my future, but I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out.
- Facility
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.
- Nov 07, 2020
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised to think cursing makes you look unintelligent.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way.
- Bad Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020