- Funny
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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
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it or is it not ethical to create an embryo, and to create a person for the purpose of getting an organ to give to someone else? Your knee-jerk reaction is 'absolutely not;' but you need the ethical analysis of that to show why and how that is something that you need to stay away from.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the media can be a very positive influence by essentially holding people to task about the importance of high quality medical care. And when the media is scrutinizing you, then I think that's a very good, positive thing for the field of medicine.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most pressing ethical question is to make sure that everything you do from a scientific standpoint is done for the ultimate good and positive issue for the people that you're caring about.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you think in terms of public service, I heard so much about what Mother Theresa had done in her life. And I was fortunate enough to get a chance to meet her and talk to her a lot about what motivates her and what drives her. And that, to me, is a person that really is an extraordinary role model.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audience instead of having to wait for your audience as you do if you're writing a book, and you get a bit of money coming in, and you can see more clearly how you're paying the bills. But it's not a good position for the serious novelist to be in.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that's integrated across the country when you have 50 different freight systems that are built one state at a time?
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humility is the armour that you clothe yourself with throughout your life. We demean each other rather than lift up ourselves.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020