- God
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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
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
A walk through the storage facility of the community museum where I worked might easily have convinced you that people in the past wore only wedding dresses, carried silver candlesticks, and played with porcelain dolls.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.'
- Nov 07, 2020
To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.
- Nov 07, 2020
Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.
- Frequent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a very small town where nearly everyone knew each other, and odds were that whatever you said about a person would make it back to them by nightfall - something incomers learned, to their frequent embarrassment.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of being close to where pigments were mined - that's the first thing in making a painting, getting the material. And what's the last thing you do in making a painting? You put a frame around it.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alan Moore is a peculiarly unsung triumph of British culture, and Northampton, where he was born in 1953, the son of brewery worker Ernest and printer Sylvia, is where you must go to find him.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can get this feeling of the English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh fairy, but it is by nature very elusive. It would be possible to pin down a German fairy, but the English one just vanishes, becomes the shadow under the trees.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020