Jean Vanier Quotes
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.
Quotes to Explore
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
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When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.
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My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift.
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We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.
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Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.
