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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
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful with the echoes, you may evoke some monstrosities.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
If India breaks your heart with untold inequalities, it also surprises you with the unheralded achievements of its most humble citizens.
- Gradually
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you relentlessly work, you gradually get accepted.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're on the battlefield, you switch off your soul; otherwise, you would die of terror - you would die of fear. You switch off your soul, and you act like an animal or a machine.
- Bad Press
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the bad press I was getting puts you on a downer, so really, you come to a stage where you start hating yourself, in a way, because you're not in control.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that all Israelis are villains is a childish idea. Israel is the most deeply divided, argumentative society. You'll never find two Israelis that agree with one another - it's hard to find even one who agrees with himself or herself.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion was very influential because when it got really bad, and you don't know who to turn to, but I turned to God and was praying and meditating, that really helped.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were getting married the Hindu way in Arrah, we had an old guest who asked my wife what her 'good name' was. I think she'd heard that I had married a Muslim. When my wife said, 'Mona Ahmed Ali,' the lady looked at me and exclaimed, 'Oh, so you've married a terrorist.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Prescott fight made me change from a boy to a man: it took me out of my comfort zone because when you lose a fight, you look at the mistakes and everything. That is what happened. I've changed from a boy to a man.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you start throwing eight or nine shots, you're going to get caught - bang - and the fight could be over.
- Gym
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an amateur, we used to fight people from the same gym. You'd spar with each other and then fight each other in championships.
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- Nov 07, 2020