- Mean
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.
- Embodies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I really like about racing is that you can't fake it. As an actor, everything is fake. You're always trying to convince people you can do something you can't. And that's the opposite of racing. The stopwatch never lies.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't ever break someone's trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020