- Balance
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The signal of the importance of something is whether you're actually measuring it and you're holding people accountable to improving those numbers.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saying you must rotate three crops a year, a certain percentage of your land must be set aside, and some of the other proposals, my sense is that it's a little anti-technology, and the ability of European farmers to feed Europe is reduced as a result.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give your child quality time. If you're going to be with him for two hours, then disconnect from absolutely everything. Look at him in the eyes - get to know your baby. Sitting there as you watch TV is not quality time to me.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never want to look back on life and say, 'I did nothing.' Because then you'll live the rest of your life upset at yourself and at everyone else around you.
- Blockbuster
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are kind of two kinds of awards you can get as a scientist. One is Nobel-like in character: it's for one big thing, for a big revolutionary discovery. And it's wonderfully well known, and of course every scientist would love to get a Nobel prize. And there's a few other similar awards. They're for individual blockbuster discoveries.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could think of the galaxy as a sort of stove with lots of pots on it, and the pots are the interstellar medium, like a chicken broth getting stronger with every reduction. Every time a supernova goes off and sends its heavy elements out into the interstellar medium, we cook up a stew that's better and better for solar systems and life.
- Good Citizen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'
- Fresh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to create what I call 'tablescapes.' It's so much more fun when you organize your table around a theme, don't you think?
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
'QI' is exactly what the best TV ought to be - you learn something, but you are also crying with laughter.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
At my worst, I was a size 22, and at that size, you can't go down the high street and buy yourself things that make you feel good. Your shopping options are limited in a way they aren't when you are a size 12.
- Promise
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'll be back. I promise you that.
- Clever
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you are just a drag-flicker, you may some time be out of the team because you're not performing well.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020