- 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
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
- Curl
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few small changes in your DNA can turn your eyes blue, make you lactose intolerant or put some curl in your hair.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For people who want to be proactive about their health, there is a lot of information that we can provide. If you are going to have children, I think you have a responsibility to know if you are carrying anything. A lot of people tend to do the testing once they are pregnant.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are used to dealing with risk. You are told if you smoke, you are at higher risk of lung cancer. And I think people are able to also understand, when they are told they are a carrier for a genetic disease, that is not a risk to them personally but something that they could pass on to children.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're just scratching the surface. One of the most exciting aspects of 23andMe is that we're enabling you to watch a revolution unfold live during your lifetime, and I think that the decoding of the genome, in my opinion, is the most fascinating discovery of our lifetime, and you get to be part of it.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may not know your complete family history, but the reality is everyone has something, and as you get older, you start to worry about these things more. Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see a gorgeous woman on your screens in a flak jacket, and it's almost like entertainment.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've come to the conclusion that you shouldn't have to see a genetic counselor. It should be a choice.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020