- Learning
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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
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every job you do, somebody's looking at it. You're leaving an impression on somebody. What is going to be your footprint?
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, it's very rare that you get a choice in a matter. But you're always looking for something that has some gravitas.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surviving the elements is working, but being on set and having to do a scene and being in a room with the same people who you actually enjoy and respect, your day project was easy.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The automatic thought was, 'Why didn't they raise up? Why didn't they overpower? They had the numbers.' But really these people, their hope was broken. Their sense of love was broken. Their appreciation for who they were was broken.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My standard for the women in my life is like, 'If no man can treat you better than I can treat you, they can't come.' You gotta step up to the plate. With respect, with acknowledgment, with support.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
If men were meant to be a dominant power, men would be on this earth by themselves. So, I don't understand when women's rights are challenged - because you're talking about human rights. You talk about subjugating an entire culture that we heavily depend on for everything we need for survival.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you say 'diversity,' the term has been denigrated over the years because it has been used as a crutch.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get into these executive offices, and people say, 'Oh, we have this project. Wait a minute, guys, we need diversity - let's choose a black actor for this; let's choose a Hispanic actor for this,' instead of saying, 'That's not diverse, that's just normal. That's what makes up America.'
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
You do the best you can, looking at precedent, in trying to anticipate where the Supreme Court is going to draw the balance between the protection of civil liberties and protecting the national security, and in some cases, we guessed wrong.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as how my kids feel about me. That's how I'm going to measure my success - not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020