Brené Brown Quotes
As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We're almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it's inviting disaster.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.
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I do not like violence.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
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I'm very lucky.
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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The recruit was Sam McCain; in one of our lunch sessions I recalled Sarah O’Connell describing him as more mouth than brain. Unsurprisingly, he’d been in sales most of his life.
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Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.
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We never discuss race in this country until something bad happens.
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The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments.
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As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We're almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it's inviting disaster.
