- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have no idea how my race shapes me, I am probably not going to be open to any feedback about how your race shapes you.
- Pilot
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a pilot, I can tell you drones may be a lot of things; airplanes they are not.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white people. You can't hold one group down without lifting the other up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most important misunderstandings for white people to get over to move forward is this idea that racism is a good-bad proposition - that if we're good we can't be part of it, that being uncomfortable means you're a terrible person. We have to let go of that and understand it as a system we all live in.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think our everyday coded language around 'good neighborhoods' and 'bad neighborhoods' is what allows for tremendous violence to happen... When you label a neighborhood 'bad' and avoid it, then you don't know and don't see what goes on there. And there's no human face to interrupt that narrative.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do used to be called 'diversity training,' then 'cultural competency' and now, 'anti-racism.' These terms are really useful for periods of time, but then they get coopted, and people build all this baggage around them, and you have to come up with new terms, or else people won't engage.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing I was always asking, 'What does that light do?' If you want to be successful, you have to understand what people are doing around you.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is normal to be under pressure in England and Italy when you arrive in the last two months of the season. Every manager is talked about, and their squad is examined.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't force an audience to see something they don't want to see, no matter what it is.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
In school, you learn that there are only seven kinds of stories. There's man versus nature, man versus man, man versus himself, blah blah blah. So it doesn't matter what they're called. It's this: do you have a new story that fits into one of those things.
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original story.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020