- 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 remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can lower premiums in a variety of ways, but one way to lower premiums is to just give people lousy coverage.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
You become a senator not by being passive but by being active, and all of a sudden, we've got a whole group just deciding to sit on their palms.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through.
- Nov 07, 2020
This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's totally appropriate to be anxious about the future of things you care about, especially in a shifting world. But I've every expectation that literature will continue to exist.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you feel like you don't have a choice to write it, write it. If you feel like you do have a choice, then move on, because there are so many books in the world.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work very hard every day not to have a lot of expectations. You just let go of the results, because a book will be on bookshelves and in libraries long after we're gone, and, in some ways, whatever happens is none of our business.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
- Where
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- Nov 07, 2020