- Believe
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that if you know people who are performers on stage and actresses or whatever it may be, the bottom line is what you do on stage. You just take on a different persona - that's what makes her so successful. Lights come on, and suddenly, it's Britney Spears, and the lights go off, and she's just Britney.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asian-Americans often struggle to be good sons and daughters, but it's ultimately your life. In the end, you have to find what you want.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art is what can't be put on a timeline. You can't say, 'Well, I'm going to make a record in May because that's when the producer has a window.' So just recording and getting things out is paramount for me.
- Friday Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless?
- Business Leaders
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.'
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.
- Nov 07, 2020
That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the South we experienced, you know, some black kids who gave us a hard time because - cause 'you talk white.' We didn't talk white. We talked fairly proper. Plus, we had a Midwestern accent, so we didn't have a Southern accent, either. So it wasn't really talking white; it was talking different.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020