- Life
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.
- Conservative
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ted Cruz is not the official spokesman for American conservatism. If you want somebody who has been out there, who has offered an alternative - the person who offered an alternative, for example, is... Paul Ryan.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you control one house of Congress, you cannot abolish something like Obamacare, no matter how much pressure you apply.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fight for what you know to be right. Don't give up.
- Nov 07, 2020
You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think - and you don't say it honestly and bluntly.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020