- Accept
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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
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
- Nov 07, 2020
One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulation from doing stuff in public, even though I'm nervous and I have very bad stage fright.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020