- Hair
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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
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned to use things like softness and vulnerability as weapons against the things you feel ashamed of in yourself.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Internally, we have so many different parts, both positive and negative. And if you force them together, a spark comes out.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's impossible to exorcise the darkness out of you. We can pretend it's not there until something bursts.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that BMW is now a sponsor of the USOC - of the United States Olympic Committee - so they offer the use of their aerodynamic speed-tunnel for testing and such for the athletes, which is a great advantage. But to be honest with you, I'd rather have a free car!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like, a lot of times, you make music, and you don't really understand why until with hindsight.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between 'lighght' and another type of poem with more words is that it doesn't have a reading process. Even a five-word poem has a beginning, middle, and end. A one-word poem doesn't. You can see it all at once. It's instant.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making music can get so emotional that, if you don't set limits for yourself, it can push you or the person that you're making music with to a breaking point.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a really deep and layered psychological situation - making music with someone - if they're trying to make something real and personal. It's almost like dating: you allow yourself to be consumed by the other - not in a bad way, but in a way that happens in nature.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're isolated as a writer, so I always envied people who could get up early and drive to work and fit into society.
- Diet
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- Nov 07, 2020
It starts with your diet and then to your exercise... you have to make the right decisions as a consumer and learn about carbs and proteins as well as watching your portion control, and from there you have to stay active as much as possible.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020