- Great
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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
It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're there for a long time.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courtney Love is so famous among journalists for her loquaciousness that the joke is that you don't have to worry about questions when you interview her - just be sure you have lots of tape.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this, your fans want you to do this, your family - you can't concentrate on your work.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I started working at the 'Los Angeles Times,' people warned me not to get too close to artists because it could make it difficult to review their work, and you can never really tell if the 'friendship' is genuine.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Pearl Jam, greatly inspired by The Who, really did become a sort of musical conscience of a generation. I love such passionate songs as 'Not for You,' 'Wishlist,' and 'Long Road.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
You had to read what I wrote if you lived in L.A. in 1975 and cared about pop music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you care about who I want to write about, I'll write about the people you want to read about.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020