- Drive
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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
- Bull Market
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.
- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to be intent on reducing size, scope, and influence of government.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're allowing the Executive Branch to deprive somebody of a constitutional liberty without any process, that is something that affects all Americans because that's a precedent that can be used.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always the kind of hitter that if you threw it 92 miles per hour at me, I'd hit it right back at you.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average person - if you had a situation that hit your family and you needed to do something, you would not just go and take a vacation, or you would not do something that's not related to the task at hand. But in Washington, that just seems to be par for the course.
- Nov 07, 2020
In nominating young women and men to our service academies, it must only be about who you are, not who you know.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a magical, unexplainable phenomenon that still occurs to this day where, however funny you think the material you've written is, as soon as you turn up to a gig to try it out, it becomes almost incoherent.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in make-or-break moments in your life. If you screw something up, it can knock you down, but that only means you'll be better when you get back to where you were before.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can be good at comedy, which means you'll be given spots, but beyond that it is luck that pushes you to the next level. There are loads of brilliant comedians who haven't had the breaks, and plenty of average comedians who have.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention... and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know you're supposed to love yourself, but I really hate the way I look. When I look in the mirror I'm so disgusted by the chocolate blancmange abomination staring back at me, I actually apologise to my wife for my physical appearance. I've got no backside, an overhanging belly and I'm so disproportionate.
- Cake
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- Nov 07, 2020