- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.
- Sky
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead - or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky.
- Rise
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- Nov 07, 2020
You work hard, and you'll rise. But, if you've got any foolish notions, just knock them on the head and forget them.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and we both of us know it's just till election day. It's an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we've got a pretty good country - until next election.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.
- Nov 07, 2020