- Mature
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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
- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forgiveness, in some cases, is a flipping miracle in the sense that you're fighting, and suddenly something happens. It's a kind of grace. Whether you believe in God or not, something happens, and it's transformative.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had been a premed student, and the way you got through premed was to work extremely hard and then harder.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the second oldest of seven children, and chores were a way of life for us. If your task wasn't completed, you were called right back to finish it.
- Foster Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think of those in the 'far right' or those who are pro-life to the extreme and at all costs protect the unborn, the thing that enrages me is you want to ask every one of them, 'How many foster children are in your home now?'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm saying in quotes.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever the career wasn't going the way I wanted it to, I would experience those disappointments, and I would put them somewhere where I could say, 'Come on now, you're still working. Keep your focus where it belongs.'
- Stand
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.
- Diminishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born with football - my brothers, my dad. I played football when I was a kid. I mean, you know, it was part of life. It's a part of growing up. It's - you know, it's a way of life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020