Y Quotes
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“You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S.”
“You don't get respect if you don't deserve it.”
“You don't get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets. And if the assets you bought got pushed up in price simply because they were risky, then you are not going to be rewarded for taking a risk; you are going to be punished for it.”
“You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.”
“You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jail house. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load of grief, and a small piece of money.”
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
“You don't get roles like leading character in 'Christine' very often because people don't really like women on film to be unlikable. I think Christine is lovable, but I don't think she's likable. I think there's a fundamental difference. For me, those are the richest ones. Men have had a career of doing those kind of things.”
“You don't get second chances in the real world.”
“You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.”
“You don't get strength for the load; you get strength from the load.”
“You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You’ve got to show up and own it. If this is a man’s world, who cares? I’m still really glad to be a girl in it.”
Source: #Girlboss
“You don't get that many people in your life that you can just tell anything to.”
“You don't get the attention of gluttons by starving anorexics.”
“You don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.”
“You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene."”
“You don't get there because, you get there in spite of.”
“You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
“You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.”
Source: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
“You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.”
“You don't get to be old bein' no fool.”
“You don't get to be the bad mom and still succeed at your job and be tough. It's such a good job because it's so rare. It's a really rare job.”
“You don't get to be world champion unless you do that.”
“You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.”
“You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.”
Source: DAYBREAK
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
“You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.”
Source: Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir
“You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.”
“You don't get to decide your part in the school play, but you do get to decide whether or not you play it well.”
“You don't get to decide," she said, "where I go, or when." "I know." His voice was ragged. "I've always known that about you. I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“You don't get to Define me, only I can Define me, all I wish from you is to recognize my Definition.”
“You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.”
Source: Al Pacino
“You don't get to make their decisions but you do get to choose the decision makers.”
“you don't get to make withdrawals from the time bank. Only deposits.”
Source: The Next Ex
“You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.”
Source: Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman's Inspirational True Story
“You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.”
“You don't get to see all my family drama, you don't get in my relationships, and you don't get to live inside my personal life. But if you don't pick at me, I'm pretty open to just let you in.”
“You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?”
“You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.”
“You don't get very far in life without having to be brave an awful lot. Because we all have our frightening moments and difficult trials and we don't have much of a choice but to get through 'em, and it takes a lot of bravery to do that. The most important thing about bravery is this - It's not about not being scared - it's about being scared and doing it anyway - that's bravery.”
“You don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.”
“You don't get what you don't ask for”
“You don't get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.”
“You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are.”
“You don't get what you want. You get what you are.”
“You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.”
“You don't give out trophies for losing. Trophies for sucking. That's a communist idea. You don't get a trophy for losing. You get a piece of pizza and you shut up. Trophies for losing? What the hell happened to us?”
“You don't give people dignity. You affirm it.”
“You don't give something away because it's fat. You take it and you look at it.”
“You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.”
Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“You don't go - oh this is a motion capture role, I'm going to employ this method of acting. We don't have anything to hide behind when we're doing this.”
“You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.”