- Bored
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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
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have a bad day at the office, four people know. You suck in a movie, everyone knows.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You gotta go with your gut. It will never steer you wrong.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Standup is really the only thing in the entertainment business that you do totally alone.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always have it down. Your continue to learn, you continue to risk, and I really love it.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that's not quite as delicate in telling your own story. I think when I'm working on a personal story, there's less pressure to try to get it exactly right.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first got into wrestling as a kid, I would read all of the wrestling magazines I could get my hands on. There was a satisfaction discovering that there was a whole wrestling world that existed that you didn't see on TV on Saturday morning. There was this idea that there was this stuff going on there that they didn't want us to see.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a firm believer of the venture capitalist-style approach to solving problems. Rather than doing many small things that you hope add up, it's much more effective to work on projects that are high risk and high reward.
- Puzzle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you start working on something, you have to go about it with the underlying assumption that this puzzle has a solution, right? If you started a jigsaw puzzle not knowing whether all the pieces were in the box, it would not be a fun exercise.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone said to me: 'Oh there's nothing you can do about plastic once it gets into the oceans,' and I wondered whether that was true.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
You go to a beach, you see a lot of plastic. It's out of the ocean, it stays out of the ocean, so that's good. But the thing is that in this Great Pacific garbage patch, this area twice the size of Texas, there's simply no coastlines to collect plastic. So the idea is to have these very long floating barriers.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020