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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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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I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the work from my laboratory would have been possible.
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You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.
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Now I'm on television, I'm far more conscious of my skin than I used to be - I would often leave the theatre with layers of pancake make-up still on my face, but on a medium such as TV, I have to be more fastidious.
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Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.
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Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
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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.
