- Makes
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got out of the hospital, it was one of those classic things - you're looking death in the eye, and it changes you. I thought, I ought to go back on the road.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were looking at ourselves as a store rather than a brand. When you do that, you draw thick, heavy lines around your freedom.
- Nov 07, 2020
We never want to hear the customer say, 'You have nice sunglasses, but I can't find jeans in my size.'
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of us feel, when we look at the Dow Jones plunging, alienated - you do feel as if we're in the grip of some alien force that slipped human control.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is really bizarre is that you sense it is not in Washington either. It is now very hard even to locate the levers of power, let alone to pull them and change things.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company - it's a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there.
- Early Days
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- Nov 07, 2020