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Over the month of November 2020, we collected quotes from various movies, interviews, shows, and more, check them out.
Best Of
Are you going to break the windows from the inside, or the outside?
— For Collard Girls
Intentions are great but impact is greater.
— Dr. Yaba Blay | J.ill The Podcast Episode 1 | Where Would We Go?
If you don’t work on building your own dream, you spend your whole life helping someone else build theirs.
— Benton | Ep #53: ZOE LISTER-JONES | Good For You Podcast with Whitney Cummings
The reason I think we become numb when we have repressed rage is because there is a dishonesty in it. You are lying not only to yourself, but you’re lying to everyone that you’re okay when you’re not. I think that creates a kind of, moat almost between who you really are and who you’re projecting yourself as, and in that space is where the numbness lies.
— Jameela Jamil | Red Table Talk | Secret Struggles of “The Most Controversial Person On The Internet”
The best that you can give is a replication of the best someone gave you.
— Amari Allah
We don’t look at it as a very, very natural human experience. Everyone is carrying some sort of trauma. You don’t have to have just gone to a warzone to come back with PTSD. And I think because we only look to very big, dramatic moments as markers of what trauma can be caused by, a lot of people miss the signs.
— Jameela Jamil | Red Table Talk | Secret Struggles of “The Most Controversial Person On The Internet”
Once you step out of the worst part of mental illness, it feels like stepping out of a club at 4:00 a.m. where it’s only when you’re outside on the quiet street you can hear how loud it was in there.
— Jameela Jamil | Red Table Talk | Secret Struggles of “The Most Controversial Person On The Internet”
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
— Will Smith | Red Table Talk | Will Smith’s Red Table Takeover: Resolving Conflict
Love is L-U-V. Listen, understand, validate the parts that you agree with.
— Will Smith | Red Table Talk | Will Smith’s Red Table Takeover: Resolving Conflict
You have to be able to withstand someone else’s truth.
— Will Smith | Red Table Talk | Will Smith’s Red Table Takeover: Resolving Conflict
You’re big on opinions, how are you with ideas?
— Dr. Andrews (The Good Doctor: 4.3)
It’s better to show my love than try to explain it.
— Shaun (The Good Doctor: 4.3)
The toes you step onto the way to the top are connected to the asses you’re going to have to kiss on the way back down.
— The Undertaker Takes Care of Business While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones
Sometimes subtlety is overrated.
— Mrs. Coulter (His Dark Materials: 2.2)
We feel welcome but not equal.
— Gabby (A New York Christmas Wedding)
[I have] not given up. Just made peace with my limitations.
— Jopari (His Dark Materials: 2.4)
Just because I know what I want doesn’t mean I always get it.
— Isabelle (Life In a Year)
I expect you to have expectations of yourself.
— Eric (Industry: 1.3)
Anger is a potent spice. A pinch wakes you up, too much dulls your senses.
— Harry (The Queen’s Gambit: 1.5)
So you protect yourself by removing yourself. That’s not running away.
— Rebecca (Grand Army: 1.7)
If you can help and don’t offer it, don’t offer your opinion either.
— Shonda Nicole
Grand Army
Episode 7
You don’t have to be magical, but you are incredible.
— John
His Dark Materials
Episode 4
A dead-end is a new beginning.
— Chester
Don’t confuse the man with the mission.
— Jopari
From what we are, spirit. From what we do, matter.
— The Angel
Come Away
“I was longing to grow up but feared getting old.”
— Adult Alice [Not Word for Word]
Ready To Love
Episode 5
If you can “Huh?” you can hear.
— Alex (Ready To Love – 3.5)
We’re not perfect, but we are perfected.
— Anthony (Ready To Love – 3.5)
Episode 3
Vulnerability is just being okay with the possibility of someone hurting you.
— Alex (3.3)
Episode 2
Vulnerability is a luxury.
— Symone (3.2)
I’m not looking for love. I found love. I’m looking for someone to share love.
— Raymond (3.2)
Adachi and Shimamura
[How she feels about surprises] I prefer knowing because there’s actually some hope knowing it might happen.
— Adachi (Adachi and Shimamura: 1.7)
Good For You Podcast
You couldn’t do it, doesn’t mean I can’t do it.
— Whitney Cummings | Ep #53: ZOE LISTER-JONES | Good For You Podcast with Whitney Cummings
This is a real tangent, but the inner child needs to talk.
— Zoe Lister-Jones | Ep #53: ZOE LISTER-JONES | Good For You Podcast with Whitney Cummings
The Queen’s Gambit
Episode 6
[They were] not pathetic, [they were] was stuck. There’s a difference.
— Beth (1.6)
Episode 3
I don’t know why my body is so intent on sabotaging my brain when my brain is perfectly capable of sabotaging itself.
— Mrs. Wheatley (The Queen’s Gambit: 1.3)
True To The Game
Guys will give you money, but they won’t give you their time.
— Gina
Red Table Talk
Secret Struggles of “The Most Controversial Person On The Internet”
I realized, the more authentic you become, you’ll find that people will kind of fall away. [For] as much as people are like, “I gotta keep it real,” “I need to be true,” it seems as though when somebody’s practicing real authenticity, people are like, “Oh, no, that’s a little too much.”
— Jada Pinkett-Smith | Red Table Talk | Secret Struggles of “The Most Controversial Person On The Internet”
Will Smith’s Red Table Takeover: Resolving Conflict
Most people’s childhood wounds is that they weren’t listened to.
— Dr. Ramani Durvasula | Red Table Talk | Will Smith’s Red Table Takeover: Resolving Conflict
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