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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career - whether you are playing to 100,000 people at Glastonbury or 1,000 kids in a club.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020