- Journey
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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
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to get divorced, but at the point where your children are part of it, you have to do something. I would really love it not to have happened because it haunts you, it will never go away, and it is probably the biggest failure, and I have to live with that.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and an aspirational leap, which is very good for writing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have; the attention of les petites mains as they sew; all that love and belief goes into the cloth. That's what you feel when you wear it.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling that you can identify. It's like a dog sitting in front of a fire. Pain isolates you, but it can also clarify things.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very anxious. If you're going to fight the best fighters, you have to be prepared for a war, a highly-anticipated fight.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to prepare for every fight.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started training for MMA when I was 18 years old. My jujitsu coach told me, 'Amanda, you should try MMA.' Since that moment, I got in love with this sport and haven't stopped.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a dream, you have to follow and train hard.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we're out there, you'll never know a lot of people are gonna look up to you. You don't realize it, but soon you go on social media and see all the messages and people try to reach out to you and you start to realize how huge and how people look up to you.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be in this position for people to be able to see I made it. I'm gay, I made it. You can. Not exactly doing the same thing I'm doing, but if it's a job or school or whatever, you're able to make it.
- Promote
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to promote me, promote me.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to be happy. I think you are happy if you make somebody else happy around you.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want the belt, you have to go drive it through and try to get it like I did against Miesha Tate.
- Deep Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results, I don't think I'd have much desire to make art. What I do comes from a deep desire to be seen and to see others.
- Possibilities
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- Nov 07, 2020