- 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 Aug 01, 2026
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't boost growth by cutting taxes, you do that by giving money to people.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think once you get noticed as an actor you get roles irrespective of the characters you portray.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing remotely dignified about sorting through rotting trash to find something to feed your child, or asking someone for money because you have none (anyone who has contrived to give people money before they had to ask will never forget the look of gratitude in their eyes).
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are a natural scientist, a publication the journal Science carries enormous prestige.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who has a child knows the importance of not over-playing your hand. He was up all night playing some game on his smartphone and you feel like saying that if it happens again the phone is gone. Forever. Till he is old enough to buy his own. Till then he can have your old Nokia.
- Economically
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catastrophic health shocks do enormous damage to families both economically and otherwise, and are easy to insure, because nobody gets them on purpose. On the other hand, insurance policies that only treat certain catastrophic illnesses are hard to comprehend, especially of you are illiterate and unused to the legalistic nature of exclusions etc.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you compare individuals, rather than countries, you find that education improves both income and the quality of life.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to leave move money in the hands of poor people, you cannot do it through personal income tax cuts. You have to just give them money.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020