Jean Vanier Quotes
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.
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When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
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You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.
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I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.
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At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
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I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.
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Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.
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Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.
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A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
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I hate horror movies, with a passion.
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The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
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'Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.'
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Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security.
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The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.
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Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a year. 300 to 500 million cases are reported. It's estimated that Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a year to the disease. Five dollars can save a life. We can send people to the moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get five-dollar nets to 500 million people?
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.
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Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.
