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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one goes to school, you don't have any idea of what you're going to learn. But as each day passes, you learn things. I believe sport is the same way. Some guys are born with a talent. But you have to nurture that talent and continue to learn.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is like school. You aren't going to be born knowing what to do in every situation. You learn little by little.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won't tell you that I've never been discouraged. Of course I have; as a human being, that's bound to happen.
- Sea
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that you should do what you know how to do best.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, we had to work. If you wanted anything at all that was more than basic food and shelter, you had to make your own money.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020