- Good
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's two things that are tough when you're trying to be a songwriter: Number one is, how do I write a great song? The second thing is, how do I write a great song that's right for me?
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a deal with myself that no matter where I go, if I see a street performer, I'd tip them. It's sweet to know that you can get started from the generosity of others.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't have Thanksgiving and not just be like, 'All right, where's the football.' It's been branded very, very well. You can't have one without the other at this point.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want to hit people's ears to make them want to dance in their kitchen. So that is what a hit is to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with three jobs: founder, CEO, and chair of the board. The first eight years at Bonobos, I have learned a lot about the tension between the first two. It didn't even occur to me that I had the third job until much later.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it. It's an act of creation, of irreverence, of defiance, of hope, and arguably one of narcissism.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020