Vulnerable Quotes - Page 11

• The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

  David Whyte

  Sound, Essentials, Lions

  David Whyte (2007). “The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America”, p.121, Crown Business

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• George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning.

  Ralph Nader

  Campaigns, Way, Dean

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• How to survive boarding school. Do not express emotion, do not feel emotion, do not have emotion. If someone hits you, hit them back, if someone argues with you, argue back, never give in an inch, never look vulnerable and you will survive.

  Eddie Izzard

  School, Giving, Looks

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• I learned a lot about the images of pornography and how much they dealt with close-up, when a person is at their most vulnerable and having to reveal details about themselves. I wanted to combine the eternal in two different manners. There is the biological eternal - here is our species reproducing - and then the transparent, spiritual aspect of it.

  Jeff Koons

  Spiritual, Two, Details

  Jeff Koons (2002). “Jeff Koons: Pictures, 1980-2002”, Distributed Art Pub Incorporated

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• Along with the good qualities, if someone isn't vulnerable I can't be around them to a certain extent. And I don't mean vulnerable to me or vulnerable to me in a sexual way. I just mean vulnerable, period.

  John Malkovich

  Mean, Quality, Way

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I think directors can be a little insensitive to how vulnerable an actor is, when he's giving a performance. Part of the job of an actor is to invite scrutiny, but with that, the people around them have to nurture that and put them in an environment where they feel safe and they feel like they can risk something.

  Eric Balfour

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• We are such skeptics that we find it difficult to believe in God and angels and a spiritual afterlife, but a moment of fear makes our spirit so vulnerable that it allows us to believe in something beyond that.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Spiritual, Believe, Angel

  Source: collider.com

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• Every time you see him, you only make yourself vulnerable to further heartache. Do you really need further proof that he's getting on with his life without you?

  Greg Behrendt

  Heartache, Needs, Proof

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.157, Harmony

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• When my stepfather died, I just kind of fell apart. I felt pretty vulnerable, like there literally could be no tomorrow.

  David Spade

  Tomorrow, Kind, Stepfathers

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• I think [indications of vulnerability are] why so many portraits work when they're difficult: we believe we're presenting ourselves one way, but the camera always reveals something more vulnerable, despite our best efforts.

  Katy Grannan

  Believe, Thinking, Best Effort

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• My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs to reveal the person through stance and stare, when he or she was most reflective or off guard, in order to measure the person and event unfolding.

  Jerome Liebling

  Order, Events, Truthful

  Jerome Liebling, Alan Trachtenberg (1997). “Jerome Liebling: The Minnesota Photographs, 1949-1969”, p.110, Minnesota Historical Society Press

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• There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-paleolithic ancestors huddled in vulnerable sleep. That group of nomads, cameleers, sheep and goat herders, farmers, and guerilla fighters lent credibility to the idea, for they snored so thunderously and with such persistent ferocity through the long, cold night that they would've frightened a pride of ravenous lions into scattering like startled mice.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Sleep, Pride, Night

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• I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Teacher, Teenager, People

  "Elisabeth Shue: Shue Shines Again". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. August 1, 2000.

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• In the tradition of Julian of Norwich and St. Teresa of Avila and all the other mystics, we can learn to render ourselves vulnerable to the "favors of God" - those indescribable experiences that mock our dualisms and so saturate our imagination with abundance that they transcend our ability to convey joy and wonder. In the tradition of St. John of the Cross, we can learn to survive and derive benefits from the soul's dark night.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Dark, Night, Imagination

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• Be like a sponge and desire the Lord with everything that's within you. Every case that does that, they are on the floor receiving. People pray for you, that's your time to receive. Pray on the way out, you can pray later. Don't take control, you can take control later. The whole deal is, you lose control, He takes control. He gets you out of your comfort zone, makes you feel vulnerable, right? You can analyze it later can't you?

  John Arnott

  People, Desire, Receiving

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• For me, writing music is a good way to say what's on my mind. It's less vulnerable in a way, less embarrassing, less exposing to the idea of seeing someone's reaction. The thing about it, though, is you need to be ready... especially if you've got something you're burning to say... even if it's just what some people might think is just a small moment that nobody'd ever bother with or notice.

  Aaron Lines

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• It makes sense for societies to make education compulsory for children. Children are vulnerable. They can't make decisions. But the decisions can't all be left in the hands of the parents. They can be irresponsible too.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Hands, Decision

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.

  Noam Chomsky

  Responsibility, People, Care

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.

  Jewel

  Writing, Telling The Truth, Young

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My kids and my wife make me feel vulnerable.

  John Feldmann

  Kids, Wife, Feels

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Talking about adversity that I've walked through in my own life or hearing an artist talk about their own adversity makes me feel vulnerable.

  John Feldmann

  Adversity, Artist, Talking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

  Jeremy Jones

  Mountain, Environment, Humbling

  "Jeremy Jones and Protect Our Winters". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I feel vulnerable in a good way. When I talk about my family, I usually have happy tears.

  Camila Alves

  Tears, Way, My Family

  "Camila Alves: On What Inspires Her". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I feel vulnerable when I have no choice. It segues into every facet of life, whether it's love, work, family, or conservation. Here it is: the whole reason that I started the Ian Somerhalder Foundation was the feeling of complete vulnerability during the BP oil spill.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Oil, Choices, Feelings

  "Ian Somerhalder, ‘The Vampire Diaries’ Actor, Talks Love, Social Media And Social Change With Origin Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2013.

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• I always feel a bit vulnerable when I begin a new project, especially when I am playing a character with either a troubled past or unique personality.

  Jake T. Austin

  Character, Unique, Past

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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