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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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 never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.
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In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas...
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In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.
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I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.
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I have great sympathy with America. It's very, it's very tough to be the only remaining superpower in the world.
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The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.
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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.
