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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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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Just as two people can have similar personalities, two companies can have a remarkably similar approach to business.
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It's everyone's responsibility to build up other women rather than tear them down. Be self-aware and proactive. It's not wrong to have those thoughts, but you can change how you respond to those feelings. Take a mental step back, and think about why you're feeling that way.
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We're playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerrilla.
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The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.
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I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I'm claiming that I'm an artist of some kind.
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It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of its minorities.
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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.
