Jean Vanier Quotes
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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I moved on to a nursing agency as a receptionist just to get a job, and ended up managing it, which led to me opening my own - say your mom is sick and needs someone to help her, then you call something like what I had: a home health agency.
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We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.
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The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.
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The strong need the weak in order to become more human, more compassionate.
