- People
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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
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of progressives really believe that if we can turn out one more white paper with bullet points about how to fix Problem X, we can fix it. But that's not primarily the way you reach people or move them. You reach the heart first.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?
- Dissect
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to remind people that black music is amazing. And there are all forms of it that we've forgotten, you know? Rock music is black music! Don't forget that's what it is.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very rare that you get very old jazz lovers and super-young hip-hop lovers at the same exact show, when you think about it. Not many artists can do that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you got every single artist in the world in one room, and you put Miles on one side and Prince on the other side, those are the two people that everybody would be trying to get a glimpse of. And Michael Jackson would be the other one.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst jazz musicians are normally better than most musicians, because you have to know so much.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020