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“You go to school to get a job, and you get a job to take time off to do nothing. Why not do nothing to begin with?”
Source: Nothing
“You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.”
“You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.”
“You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And that's why you feel awful later--you've relieved yourself, and if it truly is tragic and awful, it's not better, it's worse---the exhibitionism inherent to a confession has only made the misery worse.”
Source: American Pastoral
“You go to something like the Golden Globes, and it's the most glamorous place you could ever be, but then you go home and you're still like, 'Urgh, this dress is too tight, I wanna take off these shoes and put on my pyjamas.' At the end of the night all the glamour goes away and you're just a human.”
“You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls?”
“You go to the cinema and you realize you're watching the third act. There is no first or second act. There is this massive film-making where you spend this incredible amount of money and play right to the demographic. You can tell how much money the film is going to make by how it does on the first weekend. The whole culture is in the crap house. It's not just true in the movies, it's also true in the theater.”
“You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.”
“You go to the marketplace and there are seventeen consciousnesses moving in and out. Sometimes you want the same shirt that I want, and our thought bubbles collide a bit and that makes plot.”
“You go to towns in Massachusetts, Greenfield, first settled in 1686. Wouldn’t it be cool if it said, “Greenfield. First settled c. 13,000 B.P. or approximately 13,000 Before the Present. Resettled.” Maybe we could say even, “Resettled by whites,” Or, “Resettled anyway, 1686.” It would have a different impact. And of course it would help explain why the town is called Greenfield, because it was a green field and the fields were left by Native people who had already been farming them.”
“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”
“You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.”
“You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.”
“You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.”
“You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.”
“You go up to the devil and ask if he knows he's a sinner and he'll say, "Well, yes I am! And a mighty fine one at that!"”
“You go where knowledge cannot reach, and lo and behold, wisdom has already arrived there before knowledge! You go where the sun cannot reach, and to your surprise, you see a light there; wisdom has already arrived there before knowledge!”
“You go where the work is. It can be in my own back yard, Israel, Spain, or Yugoslavia. We may have the greatest technical efficiency in the world, but our artistic values are not necessarily the best.”
“You go with your gut. Not your heart.”
“You go your way I'll go your way too”
Source: Book of Longing
“You go, dark energy! Go on, dark matter. They don't understand you, dark matter. They don't get you.”
“You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world and you want to talk about that, then fine. Or you can't talk about disability, but disabled comics can talk about that.”
“You going back?' he asks.
'Where?'
'College,' he says. 'You plan on going back?'
And before she can think of a proper answer, she blurts out the first thing that comes to mind:
'Why would I?'
'To finish your degree,' he says.
'Yeah, I get it,' she says. 'But—why?'
'To get a better job?'
'I’m okay with this one,' she says.
'Yeah,' he says, shifting in his seat again. 'But—I don’t know. Can’t you make more money?'
'Linus,' she says, leveling her eyes at him. 'I was an English major.”
Source: Quarter Life Crisis
“You going to actually teach, or just stare into space again while pretending you’re forming a thesis thought?”
“Not fair,” I said, sipping my own tea. It had cooled just enough to taste the bitterness, a familiar tang. “I stare very academically.”
Source: The Heir of Ash and Thunder
“You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.”
Source: The subtle knife
“You going to make pulling a gun on me a regular part of foreplay?" Wes smirked.”
Source: Cowboy Wolf Trouble
“You going to try the rest of your gear on?" he asked on an exhale. "Or you want to whine about your pants a little more?" "Don't make me flip you off." "Why would I deprive you of a favorite hobby?" [Vishous to Butch]”
Source: Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“You going to watch my butt all day, or are you going to join me?" asked my mate.
"What if I had said I was going to watch your butt all day?" I asked curiously as I opened the door an stepped into the hot water.
"I've been considering belly-dancing lessons," he told me in a serious voice.”
Source: Silence Fallen
“You gonna back down so easy, little sister?. Not much wild about you, is there? I bet that cottage doesn't have a scratch. Did Edward tell you how many houses Rose and I smashed?”
Source: Breaking Dawn: Twilight
“You gonna be okay with that idiot car of yours? ...”
“I’ve got AAA. They’ll be here. Eventually.”
...
“Well, if they don’t show, give the station a call and I’ll drive over and jump you.” There was a sort of strangled non-noise. “Jump your car. Jump-start it. The cruisers have incredible batteries.”
She started laughing. “Is that a Freudian slip, or are you just happy to see me?”
Source: Out of the Deep I Cry
“You gonna deal with Mr. Hot and Moody?" "Not sure. I may just pull out my e-reader." He nodded. "Probably safer for your sanity.”
Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day
“You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?”
“you gonna figure it all out and it's going to be so worth it, despite it all.”
Source: Traveling Souls
“You gonna hear a lot of loving songs in there, you gonna hear betrayal songs, you gonna hear action that takes place on some of the records ... But it all revolves around that world, that Shaolin/ Wu-Tang world. They just battling one another, and at the end of the day, we all come to find out that we're one and the same. We fighting each other but we're the same.”
“You gonna jump on-line and tell your geek squad you landed me?”
Source: Breathe
“You gonna keep staring at me, Great Acheron, or are you ready to chew me a new one?”
Source: Night Embrace
“You gonna leave me anything?”
Source: Wet Matches
“You gonna put on your big-girl panties and fight with the boys, now?” He looked over his shoulder as if he expected me to blush or something. “Who says I wear panties?” I was certain that he flushed red this time. Laughing, I left him shaking his head and went on inside to find the Kid. We had work to do.”
Source: Blood Trade: A Jane Yellowrock Novel
“YOU GONNA STAND THERE WITH YOUR BUTT ON THE BACK OF YOUR BODY OR ARE YOU GONNA GET IN ON THIS, BEEF?”
Source: The Great Outdoor Fight
“You gonna stop us from saving the planet from an ecological disaster, or are you going to prove that the X-Men are indeed about helping the people?”
Source: Uncanny X-Men (2018) #4
“You gonna suck the marrow out of that bone?" he asked, hoping for a distraction.
"Like to suck something else."
"Christ," Alex sputtered. He sure walked right into that one.
"Just sayin'."
Alex took another giant swig. "You got a dirty mouth."
"I'd be more than happy to show you dirty. Just like I did this mornin'. By the way...you looked amazin' when you unloaded.”
Source: Ride the Wind
“You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding him if it was aliens," Grandma said.”
Source: High Five
“You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black”
“You got a bag of pot, there's someone who wants to buy it from you. So in a weird way, marijuana has [become] and is becoming the new currency of the world.”
“You got a cop under five feet tall, what if he's gotta plant evidence on a high shelf? What then? What if he's gotta chase a suspect onto a ride at Disneyland?”
“You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did.”
“You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so we can fly away
We gotta make a decision
We leave tonight or live and die this way.”
“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“You got a gun, you don't have to work out.”
“You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world.”