- 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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to stay the same, but I also think that change is inevitable. What I mean is, if you stay the same as in your rookie days, you can't deal with all the new responsibilities you are faced with. Of course, my most important values should stay the same.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like having conversations: you learn a lot about how other people think. If I'm myself and confident, I don't get nervous easily. I try not to make other people uncomfortable - I think that's a very arrogant thing to do.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics, you win and you lose. You come up in power, you go down; it's part of life.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are in politics, and you are a genuine person who genuinely cares, then everything comes second.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot control the spending habits of people. It is a free society, after all, and people should have right to spend their money as they wish.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it.
- Happy Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this country, if a woman wants to work, she has very little choice. After you cross the age suitable for a heroine, there is nothing in the middle; the next thing you do is you become a mother.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a woman, there is a complete dearth of roles to do. Abroad, you really have good roles, and by good roles, I don't mean the film has to be women oriented. I wouldn't mind playing a well-written, small role.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
My platform for activism is my music, and the issue I am working to address is child marriage. Everyone can find an issue that they care about and their own authentic way of expressing and sharing their message and working for change. When you speak authentically about something that matters to you, your voice has even more power.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020