- 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
- Handling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Giftedness gives you this amazing tool kit for handling self-discipline and gives you an area of knowledge, but then it also gives you this weird set of aspirations.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got pregnant with my daughter, both my husband and I were freelancers, and we didn't have that much security. We had savings. We were better off than many people, but we didn't have, you know, pensions and all the things that people used to have.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you learned about in literature class. As funny as Dunham's 'Girls' is, it can definitely border on Hipster Sexism.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some reason, people don't want to see a girl onstage. Whether it's a girl or a guy, if you like the music, who cares?
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just find P.J. Harvey so mesmerising to watch because she remains unfathomable. She is the kind of woman who makes you rue the day you weren't born her. She always seems to be the cat that walks alone, and you don't feel you are supposed to know her.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really irrelevant, but I wouldn't want to be stick thin. It's better to have bit of fat on your face when you get older.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a bit multifaceted in the sense that I've got many more than one musical taste. If you think about it, I started out playing in a punk band and ended up doing electro-pop. That was more an accident than a plan.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020