- 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
- Measure
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
- Doorstep
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
- Orphan
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
- Declaring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.'
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: 'Wouldn't it be great if these ideas actually made an impact?' So when you start to see that idle fantasy intrude on the regular world... It's peculiar.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020