- Someone
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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
- Boxers
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That's why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.
- Determination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I learnt that you have to be determined. It's not violence or aggression. It's sheer determination.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civics isn't something where you learned - learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans defined themselves by their Constitution. That is what creates us. This is our heritage, and you must know our heritage.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't bypass our heritage. We can't bypass the knowledge of who we are. You don't take a DNA test to see if you believe in freedom. Freedom is taught, and teaching the Constitution - I won't go on too much.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'1984,' one of the most important works ever written, helped us understand the Cold War. In '1984,' the dictatorship was always surveilling you. Now, young people want to be surveyed. They want people to know where they are at all times.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles and not public pressures of other sort. That's the meaning of neutrality.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
A judge sometimes must release a criminal. He doesn't like it, she doesn't like it, but the law requires it. And the context of an election in which you are "soft on crime" betrays a misunderstanding of the judicial process and a misunderstanding of the Constitution.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'
- Nov 07, 2020
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020