Jean Vanier Quotes
I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
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I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
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Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn't be threatened by the ads I do.
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Obviously, I'm not a singer. I don't consider myself a singer.
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There's this misconception in the industry that you might have to go a little lighter or skate on the surface in order to reach people - and then in your second album, you get to tell who you are.
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That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
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As we continue advancing and leveraging GIS and as we keep bringing in new generations of technology as well as new generations of people, my sense is we're going to achieve extraordinary things.
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The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
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As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.
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Tell my friends to get me out of here.
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And to get that much talent in the show-and to keep it constant and consistent-I think is a remarkable feat.
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When once you have plunged into the strife for power, it is the fear of those who are seeking for power over you that so easily persuades to all the great crimes.
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Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.
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Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.
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The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start.
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I do know Joe Lansdale has the most extraordinary voice you've ever heard in your life in terms of an accent that, when I started doing it, they had to go, 'Whoa, we need less.' But that's how he talks.
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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
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He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
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It's crazy to me how concerned people get with what it looks like and what you can do there. People may as well be talking about JRR Tolkien or Star Trek or something.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.
