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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I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
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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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As a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.
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I'm a huge fan of the Chainsmokers - like, huge. Like, I would love to collaborate with them.
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I think a lot of people might've and probably did have the idea of renting clothes before me. I was the only one who was crazy enough to attempt it.
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I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.
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Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.
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Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.
