- Feel
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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
Let's let everybody believe what they want to believe. And that means, P.C. police, don't you be coming down on people who believe in God and who believe in Jesus.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.
- Nov 07, 2020
One of the advantages of not going to art school is that you're not taught what you can't do.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take a candy bar in the short run, it gives you a burst of energy, but after a while, it just makes you fat.
- Bank
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- Nov 07, 2020
The banks have accounts with the Fed, much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came home from school one day, and there was a phone call for me. And I picked up the phone. They said, 'This is the Harvard Admissions Department. We'd like to let you know that you're accepted in the freshman class.' And I said, 'Come on, who is this really?'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.
- Skin
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don't I talk about race that often. I said, 'It's because I'm a neurosurgeon.' And she thought that was a strange response... I said, 'You see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.'
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember finding this book, which showed a New York subway train that had been covered in so much graffiti you couldn't recognise it was a train. I thought, ‘I want to do that… how do you do that?'
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I agree with is that we need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. And he said, you know, if you give me a tithe, it doesn't matter how much you make.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.
- Punk
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be a punk all your life.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020