Jean Vanier Quotes

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

Jean Vanier

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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.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Life
  • Experience
  • College

• 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.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Change
  • Creative
  • Company

• I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Comedy
  • I Can
  • Where

• 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!

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • People
  • You
  • Environment

• 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.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • New
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Sometimes

• At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

  

  Ziaur Rahman
  • Taken
  • Head
  • Direction

• 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.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Help

• Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Dream
  • Interesting

• My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Situation
  • Saying

• 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.'

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • God
  • Education
  • Technology

• I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • World
  • Like
  • Environmental

• Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Door
  • Down
  • Hollywood

• 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.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Country
  • Home

• A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Times
  • Cement
  • Downtown

• I hate horror movies, with a passion.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Hate
  • Passion
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Good
  • Society

• New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.

  

  Hunter Parrish
  • Character
  • Film

• When I was homeschooled, I fell so behind - months behind at school - because I'm not good at keeping up. And so I had to sit down for literally three weeks to a month and just do all of it. And it was not fun, and I didn't want to do it, but I had to.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Live

• I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Practice
  • Perfection
  • Concert

• If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Identity

• Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

  

  Jean Vanier