Vulnerable Quotes - Page 22

• I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

  Steve Martin

  Years, Criticism, Remember

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• I approached UNHCR because I believe in what the United Nations. I believe refugees are the most vulnerable people in the world. They are affected by everything, including landmines. They are vulnerable to everything.

  Angelina Jolie

  Believe, People, World

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• Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

  Bill Gates

  Disease, Ninety, Cases

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• As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

  Jeanette Winterson

  People, Prepared, Allowing

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.

  Brené Brown

  Knowing, Who We Are, Matter

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.23, Penguin

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• I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in the world and when I do meet that being, in other people, what I want to ask is "How do we keep opening ourselves so that we can become as vulnerable and as willing to live in the deepest complexity and ambiguity and truth that we can?

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, People, World

  Interview with Carolyn Roark, www.ecumenicajournal.org. February 16, 2016.

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• The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

  Anais Nin

  Hurt, Imagination, Doe

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• As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Mother, Actresses, Feels

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• Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Money, Business

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• Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.

  Steven Seagal

  Hero, Character, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Growing Up, Secret

  "Maurice Sendak's dark visions delighted generations of children" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.

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• For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever. “Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam didn’t do vulnerable. “Really what?” I asked. “Despite the way our bond scares you, despite the way someone in the pack played you, you’d still have me?” He'd been listening to my thoughts. This time it didn't bother me. “Adam,” I told him, “I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you.

  Patricia Briggs

  Waiting, Forever, Listening

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.78, Penguin

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• I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.

  Francoise Sagan

  Discovery, Irritated, Found

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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• I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.

  Edward Abbey

  Sea, Sky, Perfect

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.147, Macmillan

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• When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our egos, become vulnerable and know levels of joy and well-being unique among life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapture that can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are no limitations and we rejoice in union. We become one and, at the same time, both.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love You, Unique, Love Is

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• I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.

  Steve Zahn

  Character, Superhero

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 6, 2003.

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• People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at Motel 6 makes you feel smarter. In fact, I think it actually means you are smarter, but I have no hard data to support that.

  Tom Bodett

  Taken, Mean, Thinking

  "Actually, Motel 6 Doesn't Leave the Light on for You". Interview with Kimberly D. Williams, adage.com. August 30, 2007.

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• Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

  A.C. Grayling

  Life, Integrity, Real

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• Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

  David Frum

  Vanity, People, Groups

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• The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

  Deana Carter

  Song, Fearless, Feels

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• I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.

  Louis Begley

  Successful, Thinking, Law

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• The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

  Tim Bishop

  Jobs, People, Suffering

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• In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

  Ulrich Beck

  Finals, Analysis, Facts

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• I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

  Yancy Butler

  Thinking, People, Tough

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• I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Strong, Different Nationalities, People

  "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Talks THE THING and BULLET TO THE HEAD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 13, 2011.

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