- People
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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
- Catastrophic
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as they see fit... You can't turn laws on and off as you deem fit.
- Contributing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at the Nixon pardon, the short-term gain would have been never to pardon him.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're part of the first family, your life tends to get played out in front of the whole nation.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's bad enough on a first date trying not to say something dumb without having three Secret Service guys with you.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what we say in the Hamptons: If you have to come out on a Friday afternoon or go back on a Sunday night, you're not rich enough to have a house there. So, you have to be able to come and go when you feel like it in the Hamptons.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are some things that other people just don't want to forgive you for. For instance, Woody Allen and Soon-Yi.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020