- Life
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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
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
In case you're unfamiliar with TED, it is a series of short lectures on a variety of subjects that stream on the Internet for free.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, you spend years getting ready for an opportunity to arise, and when it does, you're ready for it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you catch people's eyes during the show, which is horrible and awkward. I can always see the people in the front row, and sometimes you get people who are fast asleep. Maybe they had a long day at work, but that's an expensive nap.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the cable news guest, nothing happens for a while until suddenly everything happens very quickly. After you receive your television face, you stand around for a while, ignored, until you're sat down at a desk and asked to argue with strangers.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can do a good job when you play it safe, but you can't do a spectacular job. You have to risk it and be in danger of looking like an absolute fool.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just feel it's a shame to let fear get in your way and stop you achieving things.
- Praise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like you have to use the platform you're given to voice concerns and also to praise things when they need to be praised.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an obstacle being a girl when you move all over and don't have half the things you need. It's like everything is wrinkled in your life.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom from menial work should be a rallying cry, not a cudgel to be used against the Left. How much liberty is there in having to do something you hate in order to survive?
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a 'do what you love and love what you do' philosophy when they are wealthy enough to work hard only voluntarily, and when their jobs grant them status.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Ecological sensitivity' is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump. He doesn't even believe in global warming. But this is because he is a city boy.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020