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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This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.
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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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The woman that deliberates is lost.
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It happens that all those who have something of mine, painting, mobile, or static statue, say that it makes them very happy. For example, children adore mobile statues and understand their meaning immediately. I have seen children, here in France, in America or in Great Britain, run and shout with joy in my exhibitions. They like it instinctively.
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The very essence of success is practice.
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In terms of playing, of course, Europe is definitely more finesse than playing in the WNBA. I think they're more skilled in terms of the overall ability. And here in the States, in the WNBA, we just kind of play off athleticism and just play.
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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.
