- Great
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the vast majority of strangers you interact with are trolls on social media, it slowly begins to chip away at your love for humanity.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a weakness for treating people's economic interests as their only interest, ignoring things like belonging and pride and the desire to send a message to those who ignore you.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you value the democratic process, you have to value the protection of political speech.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can always go back to the place where you were comfortable, the place where you're from.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to believe that you have to say yes to every opportunity that comes your way in order to succeed in life. Now I realize that the rarely-talked-about secret to success (and sanity) is recognizing when it makes more sense to say no.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moving to L.A. was hard. I had a career in Spain, and you have to forget your ego. I was a nobody again.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to explain to my parents what's going on. You can't compare Hollywood with Cuba. I didn't even know I could dream this.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to granting unconditional birthright citizenship, the United States and Canada are alone in the industrialized world: North American exceptionalism, you can call it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a minimum requirement of morality, of moral compass, of decency, of moral empathy. And if you are incapable of meeting that minimum requirement, you can't even talk to me about policy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020