“You've got to be kind to yourself
You've got to be kind to yourself”
Zooey Deschanel (1980) American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter
"Me and You".
Volume Two (2010)
Context: Well I know that you worry a lot about
Things you cant control
There are so many things wed like to have
But we just cannot hold You've got to be kind to yourself
You've got to be kind to yourself
“A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”
James Callaghan (1912–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; 1976-1979
Though widely quoted from his speech in the House of Commons, (1 November 1976) published in Hansard, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 918, col. 976.; this is actually a very old paraphrase of a statement of the 19th century minister Charles Spurgeon: "A lie travels round the world while truth is putting on her boots." Even in the paraphrased form Callaghan used, it was in widely familiar, many years prior to his use of it, and is evidenced to have been published in that form at least as early as 1939.
Misattributed
“You've got to be optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
Good Gulf radio show (24 June 1934)
Other
“In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
Flannery O’Connor book Wise Blood
Source: Wise Blood
“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) American singer and songwriter
Dalton Trumbo book Johnny Got His Gun
Johnny Got His Gun (1938)
Context: There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.
“Remember yourself.
You've got a Full House in your head tonight…”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
"Remember yourself" was a motto of G. I. Gurdjieff, whose ideas were an early influence on Bush.
Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)
Zooey Deschanel (1980) American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter
"Me and You".
Volume Two (2010)
Julia Gillard (1961) Australian politician and lawyer, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
Gillard lists the events which followed her loss to Rudd in the June 2013 Labor Party leadership spill
The Killing Season, Episode three: The Long Shadow (2010–13)
