- Looking
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never understood that when I heard people retire - they said they missed being around the guys. I don't have a need to make a play in the ninth inning of a game anymore. But being on the inside and being part of a team is something that you really do value and you really do miss.
- Fiction Writer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
- Cake
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020