Jean Vanier Quotes
'To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.'
Quotes to Explore
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I knew I was going to be somebody.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
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More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.
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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
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Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.
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Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
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I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.
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When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.
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My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
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Believe it or not, but even when I’m sleeping, I’m dreaming about meeting fans.
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Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
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I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
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'To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.'
