John Bradshaw Quotes

Most people who have survived abuse have great strength.

John Bradshaw

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• Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Inspiration

• In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • School
  • Law
  • Respect

• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kind
  • Movement
  • Conservative

• The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Real
  • Change
  • Competition

• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Understanding
  • End

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• It's rare to see women in a film who are not somehow validated by a male or discussing a male or heartbroken by a male,or end up being happy because of a male. It's interesting to think about, and it's very true.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Up
  • Women
  • True

• I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Time
  • Different
  • Man

• Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • War
  • Tired

• On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Home
  • Military
  • Soldier

• I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Think
  • Person

• The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • True
  • Girl
  • Question

• As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Life
  • Death

• Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Feel

• I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Learning

• There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours.

  

  Edward Ruscha

• Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you're just really miserable.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Freedom
  • Creativity
  • Heartbroken

• First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Motherhood

• It's great we have a female Thor. It's great we have a black Captain America. But those are just optics; it's optics of change... Unless you have the structural diversity, the structural change behind the scenes - more women, more people of color actually calling the shots and editing these books - those optics won't last.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures - joined with the similar failures of others - can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

  

  John Roberts
  • People
  • Good
  • Society

• War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

  

  John McCain
  • War
  • Reality
  • Fool

• Most people who have survived abuse have great strength.

  

  John Bradshaw
  • People
  • Strength
  • Abuse