- Positive
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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
One of the most harmful things in the music industry is 'record-by-committee,' where 10 people from the label gather around, and they make you write a 100 songs and decide which one's a hit. That takes the inspiration out of it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
What it would have felt like to fall in love and have nothing holding you back from being completely free.
- Value
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important for artists to value themselves - whatever that means. Everyone's going to take that in a different way. If you don't value yourself, you will be bought and sold.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I respect the police officers, but something you learn as a young black man in this country is that... life is a little bit different for you even though, on the surface, it seems to be the same.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done plenty of phoners for Joel when he's been too busy. You'll never know. Our voices sound so similar.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're making an album, it's kind of like having a baby. You have to really put everything into it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can identify many different experiences that I've had over the course of my life and things that I've witnessed where it seemed that black men, specifically me or someone else may have got the, you know, different treatment than somebody else would in that same situation.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of heart, and I said it before. I believe the heart change comes from repenting of your racism, repenting of your bias, repenting of your prejudice and understanding that, you know what, God sees us all the same.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020