- Attitude
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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
- Hear
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.
- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot sit quiet while the KKK and other white supremacist groups rear their ugly heads.
- Front Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is a part of human nature, and you're not going to eradicate it; all you can do is try to keep it in check.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell people retirement isn't what you think. You are going to sit around and waste your life, you can only golf so much. To stay young, you have to stay in the mix.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would sit at the table with the black kids during lunch, and we'd do our banter back and forth. But occasionally, I'd get up and I'd go sit down with the white kids and chat with them and what not. Of course, because I come from the black table they would look at me like, 'Why are you here?'
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career here in Chicago. I've always been an optimist; I believe you have to be in order to survive, to be honest with you - in health, with what I've been through. That's the way I am.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a cop or two that were questionable, and probably they shouldn't have been on the job, but they were. You have that: a police department reflects the community that it serves, and it's going to have a bad apple or two, but when those bad apples are discovered, they need to be discarded as quickly as possible so the whole bureau doesn't rot.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're undercover you try to stay as true to your identity as you are. You know who you are, and you know how you normally function. If you try to put on a pretense, such as assuming a fake voice, you have to put on that fake voice all of the time. And you can't afford to slip out of it. It's too dangerous.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020