Safe Quotes - Page 34

• Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creativity, People, Trying

  "Author Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Big Magic' is a creative life". "CBS This Morning" with Norah O'Donnell, Gayle King and John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. September 22, 2015.

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• Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.

  Saint Augustine

  Christ, Seems, Hard

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• As a parent, all you want is for your kids to be safe but you don’t want to be over-protective and so you know that at some stage, they’re going to make their own mistakes and get hurt emotionally when all you want to do is protect them from that.

  Steve Carell

  Hurt, Mistake, Kids

  "Dan In Real Life - Steve Carell interview". Interview withJack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I've been getting my makeup done professionally since I was 12, I've never found a brand that could create that glowing look and flawless finish we all want from beauty products with ingredients that were effective and safe. So I had to create it.

  Jessica Alba

  Makeup, Glowing, Want

  "Jessica Alba: 'Know That You're Going To Make Mistakes And It's Okay.'" by Kristen Noel Crawley, www.elle.com. October 12, 2015.

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• I loved getting classical training in terms of acting. I would've stayed in acting school for the rest of my life if I could have. It was this amazing period of my life where everything was so safe.

  Dane DeHaan

  School, Training, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This is going to sound crazy, especially in America where there is a total inflation of the word "love," but in a sense you have to love the people in front of the camera. There has to be trust between the one who is behind the camera and the people on the other side, so that they can relax. They have to feel they are safe, and that way they don't have to pretend just because they are scared.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Crazy, America, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If people are not safe, they will not make themselves vulnerable. If they feel too comfortable, they can become complacent or lose their curiosity. They can become intellectually lazy about what matters most.

  Erica Brown

  What Matters, People, Lazy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Homophobia is a tough one. In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic. Comedy clubs in general are very unsafe spaces for LGBT, for women, for Asian people. So my goal in comedy has sort of been to make this a safe space for people who were like me.

  Margaret Cho

  Space, People, Goal

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging. I think as long as you keep your mind in the palce where you're actively looking for patterns, you may not be safe, but you're going to feel safe, I think.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Long, Mind

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough - more than enough - of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on - not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Hate, War

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• Movies that look safe are less interesting.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Interesting, Looks

  Source: deadline.com

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• Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing.

  Robert G. Allen

  Fall, Down And, Way

  Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen (2005). “Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth”, Harmony

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• O, it's enough to be on your way. It's enough just to cover ground. It's enough to be moving on. Home: better build it behind your eyes. Carry it in your heart, Safe among your own.

  James Taylor

  Moving, Home, Heart

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• Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.

  James Madison

  War, Judging, Ought

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.436

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• These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.

  Bill Moyers

  Children, Law, Safety

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• Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

  Dick Costolo

  Successful, Thinking, Measurement

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• Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right.

  Kofi Annan

  Water, Needs, Fundamentals

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• The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

  Honore de Balzac

  Boxes, Deposits, Budgets

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• The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Thinking, Justice

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• One of my favorite things in watching an actor is feeling, The story is safe in your hands. I can lean back and trust you with this.

  Alison Pill

  Hands, Feelings, Stories

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Your money has never been safe in the government's hands, and it never will be. Governments spend money; it's just their nature.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Hands

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• When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I had, I unrolled the rug. It was a map of myself. Invisible to others, but held in the rug, were all the places I had stayed - for a few weeks, for a few months. On the first night anywhere new I liked to lie in bed and look at the rug to remind myself that I had what I needed even though what I had was so little. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Home, Night

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• I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.

  Pat Benatar

  Mother, Children, Trying

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• The greeting of peace (as-salamu 'alaykum) has many meanings. One of these meanings is that the person you are greeting will be safe from you (from your tongue, your heart, and your hand) and that you will not transgress against that person with your words or your deeds. This greeting is also a prayer for peace, safety, mercy, and blessings. We should take these noble meanings, which we so often say with our tongues, and make them our way of life in our dealings with other people.

  Salman al-Ouda

  Prayer, Heart, Blessing

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• When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more than the language itself can convey about how welcome and safe I am what the expectations are and where to find food. Buddhist words come from another dialect from the people over the mountain. I've become pretty fluent in Buddhist it helps me to see my home country differently but it will never be speech I can feel completely at home in.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Christian, Country, Buddhist

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