- Chop
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
- Far Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
You must get engaged with people who are far less privileged than you. I think you must devote your time if not your resources... Because it is very, very important from the point of view of the development of our country.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are three lessons in philanthropy - one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street - you live in Time Square, you know how they do it - they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We run courses for government school teachers on Sundays. These teachers pay for their own food and stay; the kind of commitment you find in these people is remarkable.
- Categorical
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- Nov 07, 2020
My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.
- Stay-At-Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found - they are shaped.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We desperately need comprehensive immigration reform in this nation, and yes, comprehensive immigration reform proposals are nuanced and complicated, but you know what shouldn't be? Our capacity to see each other's humanity.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
- Early Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.
- Nov 07, 2020