Vulnerability Quotes - Page 11

• I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

  Kari Matchett

  Character, Comedy, Silliness

  "Kari Matchett Exclusive Interview COVERT AFFAIRS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 29, 2011.

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• As an actor playing a character, you look for all of those avenues to see if there's any sense of vulnerability or love that you can bring to a character, and decide how that's portrayed and how that's going to be a struggle with the other characters. It's your job to take that on and challenge yourself, and meet that head on and see what happens with it.

  David Boreanaz

  Jobs, Struggle, Character

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. Interview with Christina Radish.

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• Invincibility is in oneself, and vulnerability is in the opponent. Invincibility is a matter of defense, vulnerability is a matter of attack. Therefore skillful warriors are able to be invincible, but they cannot cause opponents to be vulnerable. That is why it is said that victory is discerned and not manufactured.

  Sun Tzu

  Leadership, Sports, Warrior

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• My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened.

  Fiona Apple

  Who I Am, Feelings, Feeling Sad

  "Fiona Apple is NOT the next Alanis, thank you". ELLE, October 1996.

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• Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what science is. Scientific methodology is the arrangement that allows reality to answer us back.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Reality, Would Be, Answers

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.30, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality.

  Grayson Perry

  Men, Dressing Up, Sweetness

  "Top of the pots". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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• I think that it’s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by the state over the means of violence is still so inadequate that I think state building remains a major challenge. And until the militias can be reined in and the authority of the democratically-elected state can really be firmly established, there’s still tremendous fragility and vulnerability in the unfolding story in Libya.

  Larry Diamond

  Mean, Thinking, Order

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• Otter is the most brilliant mix of facts ancient and modern about the otter species and its vulnerability to man's seemingly insatiable need to hunt the poor animal for reasons other than survival. I am sure the book will help to ensure that the hunting of otters will never return to this country-and I hope other lands will follow this example . . . A fascinating and illuminating book.

  Virginia McKenna

  Country, Book, Hunting

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• Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Character, Kids, Space

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• People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary, it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

  Toni Collette

  People, Scary, Want

  "Touchy, feely, Toni" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form.

  Stephen Bayley

  Fashion, Sacrifice, Offering

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• Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

  Jessica Savitch

  People, Literature, Rooms

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Divorce, Mean, Independence

  "What Girls Want" by Caitlin Flanagan, www.theatlantic.com. December, 2008.

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• There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity becomes a vulnerability.

  Oliver Sacks

  Song, Children, Musical

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• These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your trust in the Son of God and to weaken your resolve to keep your promises to Him. These trials are often camouflaged, making them difficult to identify. They take root in our weaknesses, our vulnerabilities, our sensitivities, or in those things that matter most to us. A real but manageable test for one can be a fiery trial for another.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Real, Adversity, Son

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• As human beings we have vulnerabilities. We also have power, but we can't just be powerful all the time.

  Shakti Gawain

  Powerful, Humans, Human Beings

  "An interview with Shakti Gawain about transformation locally and globally". Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Not being in touch with your vulnerability and not learning to own it and accept it and be comfortable with it leaves you in a position where you're liable to look at and judge other people for being vulnerable because they're reflecting that part of yourself that you're not comfortable with.

  Shakti Gawain

  People, Judging, Looks

  "An interview with Shakti Gawain about transformation locally and globally". Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• There is a different kind of vulnerability when a woman is directing

  Jane Campion

  Different, Kind, Different Kinds

  Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.98, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the world at times, so the temptation to be a vampire is compelling.

  Alexandra Cassavetes

  Ideas, People, Temptation

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• When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.

  Jenny Hval

  Genre

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Exporters monitor economic and political policies to the developing world, but the consequences of that have been to make developing countries far more sensitive to the constant fluctuations. Developing countries are not always allowed to support their farmers in the same way as the U.S. or Europe is. They're not allowed to have tariff barriers. They're forced, more or less, to shrink their social programs. The very poorest people have fewer and fewer entitlements. The consequence of this has been that there's been a chronic increase in the vulnerability of those economies to price shocks.

  Raj Patel

  Country, People, Political

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• The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

  Richard Perle

  War, Citizens, Lax

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.82, Random House

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• It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's what it is.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Mother, Sweet, Nice

  "'Twilight' Actress Elizabeth Reaser Says She's 'Nothing Like' Esme Cullen". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. October 27, 2009.

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• I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, Brother, Emotional

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• I am never home, and it's hard to keep up with things that are good for you to have in life like relationships, whether they be romantic or friendship. I have to work twice as hard to make sure I don't just check out. That's what I mean by vulnerability.

  Jen Kirkman

  Home, Mean, Checks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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