- Life
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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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're making a film, you have to make most of your decisions on the run, and there is a tendency to always shoot from the hip.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes more discipline than you might imagine to think, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, confusing, high-pressure atmosphere of a film set. But a few seconds' thought can often prevent a serious mistake being made about something that looks good at first glance.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the salesperson is busy, he or she should nod and say 'I'll be with you in a few moments,' so the customer won't mind waiting.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have never heard of laundering in Macau; money laundering is unheard of. Mind you, my casino, every bit of money - someone says Stanley Ho, you issue me a check of so much money - we don't give that easy.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible and competitive.
- Recovery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I see a stock market explode, six to 12 months later you are in a full blown recovery.
- Behaved
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- Nov 07, 2020
If machines do everything well, including allocating capital and resources efficiently, can that be deflationary, can that eliminate poverty? I don't know. It's hard to be very optimistic if you look at how humans have behaved historically.
- Calmly
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- Nov 07, 2020
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
- Consoling
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- Nov 07, 2020