Jean Vanier Quotes
Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
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I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
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When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.
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Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
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Stay away from milk. It is nature's perfect food - but only if you are a calf.
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Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.
