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“You [ Peter R. Breggin] have basically implied that they've turned our schools into something other than schools. What do you think the government has in mind by turning our schools into little clinics?”
“You [ the American President] can print more money, you just print and pay. I mean, it's a bad option, but you can do it.”
“You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process to make good decisions because you are inherently reliant on other folks.”
“You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is going to be, whether it's contentious or not, it's going t bring up a huge, emotional response from people. A lot of people will say they are ready or they're not ready.”
“You [Bill Maher] seem to have done alright with your TV show... I mean, I don't get a sense... to the extent that they're boycotting you, it's because of your other wacky views rather than your particular views on religion.”
“You [can] become part of someone else's narrative. Every once in a while I would get people asking me questions like, "If your husband is a Muslim, then why haven't you converted to Islam?" Interestingly enough, almost every person who asked me that was a Sunni, and it was their not-so-subtle way of implying that my Shiite husband was a bad Muslim for letting his infidel wife run around unconverted.”
“You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.”
“You [Donald Trump] call yourself the King of Debt. You talk about leverage. You even at one time suggested that you would try to negotiate down the national debt of the United States.”
“You [Donald Trump] wanted it [casino in Florida] and you didn`t get it. I was opposed to casino gambling before, during and after. And that`s not - I`m not going to be bought by anyone.”
“You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.”
“You [God] are a fire that takes away the coldness, illuminates the mind with its light, and causes me to know your truth and I know that you are beauty and wisdom itself. The food of angels, you give yourself to man in this fire of your love”
“You [Hillary Clinton] are the puppet!”
“You [Hillary Clinton] ran the State Department, $6 billion was either stolen. They don't know. It's gone, $6 billion.”
“You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.”
“You [Jill Stein] also believe in a full employment policy that was the majority Democratic Party policy in 1946. They actually passed a law to that effect. You want to end poverty and when people see how relatively easy it is to end poverty. And one way is to increase the minimum wage: catch up; it's been frozen for so many years.”
“You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.”
“You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.”
“You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?”
“You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons. I think that a blockade and political talk would be considered by a lot of our friends and neutrals as being a pretty weak response to this [the Cuban missile crisis]. And I'm sure a lot of our own citizens would feel that way too. In other words, you're in a pretty bad fix at the present time.”
“you [priests] are called 'another Christ.'”
“You [Republicans] are not going to cut taxes. You're going to raise taxes on the middle class.”
“You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.”
“You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.”
“You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.”
“You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.”
“You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.”
“You [young people] all are just much more internationally-minded and traveled and knowledgeable in languages than any other previous generation. So many of you are already doing a lot of international relations, I think. I so believe in student networks, and people that either study abroad or come to the United States to study, and the relationships that you all develop. You learn a lot from each other, but you all will see each other again in jobs along the way. And I think that makes a big difference. I so believe in what students can do.”
“You, a blissful sky
I, a small bird in a cage
yet, we somehow met”
“You, a domesticated animal? I don’t think so. First, you could barely fit in my living room. Second, I would never insult you by thinking of or treating the Bloodstone Dragon as I would a dog or cat. I don’t want to pet you, Kya, I want to touch you, know you. That’s not the same.”
Source: Stones of Dracontias: The Bloodstone Dragon
“You a lame so yo dame playin mind games;
I'm a pimp so I stay in that mind frame.”
“You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.”
Source: The Same River Twice
“You a lowdown dog is what's wrong, I say. It's time to leave you and enter into the Creation. And your dead body is just the welcome mat I need.”
Source: The Color Purple
“You - a sight for sore eyes,
a touch of brush on canvas,
an enclave on my wicked heart,
a ludicrous perfect composition
of selected words, of an unknown poet,
such perfection,
uniquely spread in a human being.
(Excerpted from The runner, chapter Pain)”
Source: The odyssey of my lost thoughts
“You a slave to a page in my rhyme book.”
“You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone.”
Source: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
“You about to play an opponent who is either bigger, stronger, faster or more experienced than you. Is there any hope at all? Absolutely, because one factor is in your favor: You are the Underdog!”
“You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.”
“You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.”
“You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.”
“You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.”
Source: Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959
“You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.”
“You accept life as it is, you see it as it is before you can change it.”
Source: Conversations with James Baldwin (Literary Conversations Series)
“You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.”
“You accept the historical Jesus?”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.”
“You accept whatever happens in the present moment, the only place where it can happen. Internally, you fully accept what is happening, and what is happening may include an emotion, a stream of anxiety that suddenly comes up within you.”
“You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.”
“You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.”
Source: Collected letters: 1926-1950
“You accidentally punched him?” Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckle. “I’m not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing.”
Source: Percepliquis
“You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.”
Source: Shadow Puppets