- Pressure
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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
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theatre is your pulpit - it is your church - and you want to be a priest in your church, and that's what I believe in.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most vital part of your humanity is the love you have for others. To deny it is to deny your life.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black man, you are on your own.
- Just Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
You would probably think that rock music is an urban phenomena, but the main reason for doing it in '68 was so that we could play music very loud any time of the day or night without getting complaints from the neighbours.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I'd still be doing it!
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.
- Fats
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of music do you like to listen to?' and I said, 'Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like Fats Domino and Ray Charles,' and they literally said, 'Either forget about that or leave.'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in New Orleans, when you're in seventh and eighth grade, and you're into music, and you're a dorky dude, you know, you listen to the entire Rush catalog and the entire Zeppelin catalog, and you go through these, like, phases of classic rock.
- Nov 07, 2020