M. Scott Peck Quotes
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
Quotes to Explore
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.
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If I was gay, why would I hide it?
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You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
