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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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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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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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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Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.
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It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
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Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.
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And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
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I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.
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It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.
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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.
