- Lose
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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
- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to be famous because you do something well or badly, be it singing while fat or hitting balls of various shapes and hues, you have to be prepared to divulge. We live in the age of the chronic overshare.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know from personal experience that it is extremely difficult to read while you work out, especially on a Stairmaster.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.
- Gin
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- Nov 07, 2020
No generation has escaped it - one morning, your skill with the eight-track or the record player or the cotton gin suddenly ceases to impress. It's just one of those inevitable disappointments that come with growing up, like the realization that Santa doesn't exist or the way that music always takes a turn for the worse after you turn 30.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't do it.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really scary or it's easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don't provide any substance to it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest way to be productive is if you're procrastinating on another more important project.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think, when you're doing a column and blogging every day, you get familiar with the sound of your own voice.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television is going through a transformation where you're basically able to do big, long movies in television.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020