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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
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose you could say I was always having to defend my style of captaincy. I did get a lot of criticism - some of it justified, other times as part of a tactic.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because you're made England captain, it doesn't mean that you suddenly know everything about captaincy.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
As cricketers we fail all the time. You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between nought and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you feel bad because you should have got a hundred. Even if you get a hundred, you feel you should have got 150. So you're always failing.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a religious person in the regular sense, but in the Bible you're not allowed to steal, you're not allowed to lie and you're not allowed to feel you're above other people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.
- Cricket
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- Nov 07, 2020
As cricketers we're judged on the average we have from being a 21-year-old who's just come into international cricket to the day you retire.
- Rich
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a dad is best thing you can do, it's very exciting.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was made captain, one of my things was that whatever happens in those four years, you don't want to make major changes just before a World Cup. We'd done it before, and it never worked.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're playing, every ball seems like the biggest event. When you're sitting back, you can see the overall picture better.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you were between maybe 6 and 16, there was nothing like Apollo, and I wonder if there can be something like that again. We'll just have to see.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020