George Vaillant Quotes
Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.
Quotes to Explore
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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Intentions count in your actions.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
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They shift the moving toyshop of their heart.
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New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.
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The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.
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Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.
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A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.
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If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
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I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.
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There is absolutely a side of me that people don't know. I'm not myself on Snapchat or Instagram. That's totally not me.
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Americans have seen the value of the dollar slowly decline due to the steady erosion of inflation.
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We're living in hard times.
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We picked up Madonna at The Ritz to go to the Gaultier show together, and she took off her coat. At this point she hadn’t even said a word to me, but she leaned over and said to me, Anna, I have a surprise for you, and she showed me she was wearing my dress.
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If we can find the will I strongly believe we can still make Britain’s approach to talent a bit more X-factor (without Simon Cowell) and a bit less Downton Abbey.
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When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first - it's easy to find when you're looking for it. You let a person shine with their own light and try to connect it to yours. As soon as I say hello, I go right to that light and I don't care who you are! I know we're all pieces of the same thing - I go for that common light because I know it's in all of us.
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Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.
