- People
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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
- Enlist
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- Nov 07, 2020
For heaven's sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don't stand around arguing about who's responsible, or who's going to pay.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
- Village
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to put a little solarium on the back of my house. You know. Glass.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020