- Never
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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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important what you look like, period. So, I grew up and realized, 'Just put on the shoes and wear some nice clothes and forget about it and try to sing well.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what I find truly amazing? I haven't had a hit record since the mid-'80s, and still people show up to pack up the places I'm playing.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time when I never would have considered, ever, doing television commercials for records. I would never do that. That was something that you did for K-Mart.
- Gardening
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- Nov 07, 2020
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at home, pregnant, and everybody was telling me, 'You're on a roll, don't have another baby, wait a while.' Looking back, I realize my career was peaking when I was having babies, for God's sake!
- Book Tour
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been playing Sunrise for years. I love it there. It's so loosey-goosey. I was up at the Kravis Center and it was, like, 'Oh my God!' All the minkdraggers, you know?
- Lucky
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no formula for choosing songs. I've beeen lucky over the years. You just hear it and you do it.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV ads let people know you're still around. Not only do they sell albums, they give you a high profile. They let people know you're out there and working.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior; or how to save and fix and rescue; or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball was popular in the summer, but hockey was big most of the time. With five brothers, you never escaped it. We had an indoor rink in our town, and all the boys would play on it right through high school.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020