Vulnerable Quotes - Page 22

• A willingness to drop your ego and let yourself look foolish. You almost have to enjoy looking vulnerable. You'd be surprised how many people don't want to do that.

  Tina Fey

  People, Ego, Foolish

  "Oprah Talks to Tina Fey". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February 2009.

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• When you start getting into your politics it's like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it's always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you're taking. You're not telling people to think, you're telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Thinking, People, Empathy

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• We have a huge institution that celebrates the undistinguished, an institution which is nearly as old as the Papists. It's been going on for millennia. What else is a monarchy but a series of ridiculously exalted figures who are not necessarily distinguished at all? In fact, they have a rather philistine tradition. So perhaps we are more vulnerable to it than other countries.

  Martin Amis

  Country, Tradition, Celebrate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• After a while, being so honest and so vulnerable on the page ends up affecting my own kind of self possession in the world, because I am not afraid of myself and my own thoughts. I think so much of being a woman, of being a social being, of being polite, is quieting those thoughts. There's so much we try not to say as we go through the day. There's a lot of tempering and self-editing. It is a relief to make writing that space where I don't need to do that.

  Morgan Parker

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• I know from firsthand experience that our environment and the things and people who cross our paths make all the difference. If people have no prospects for a decent job or a place to belong, it leaves them vulnerable to whoever comes along. For me, it was a Nazi skinhead.

  Christian Picciolini

  People, Path, Environment

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• I think neoliberalism is vulnerable to protest. And it's under protest because people are beginning to realize that these austerity policies are really market-driven policies designed to punish the poor, the working classes, and the middle classes by simply distributing wealth upwards.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, People, Realizing

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• Neoliberalism is vulnerable. When it comes to talking about social provisions, the only argument they have is the argument of barbarians: that social provisions make people dependent, and dependency is an evil, and people have to pick themselves up by their bootstraps. And that is such bullshit that it boggles my mind.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Evil, Bullshit

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• Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

  Abdallah II

  Justice, Intellectual, Target

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• I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage - and at times I feel extremely weak.

  Christina Aguilera

  Baggage, Sides, Weak

  "Christina: Intimate Talk About a Past That Still Hurts". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. November 30, 2006.

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• The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mean, People, Challenges

  "Christina Aguilera Finds Her Home". Interview with David Keeps, www.redbookmag.com. October 15, 2013.

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• People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

  Malin Akerman

  Survival Mode, People, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Sophisticated, Building, Vehicle

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• Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

  Fiona Apple

  Stronger, Done, I Realized

  "New Again: Fiona Apple". Interview with Colleen Kelsey and Tracey Pepper, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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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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• I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.

  Kristen Bell

  Girl, Sarcastic, Real

  Interview with Caffeinated Clint, moviehole.net. April 08, 2008.

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• Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  People, Springtime, Youth

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course.

  Sara Blakely

  Inspirational, Ideas, People

  “The woman in control of America's bottom” by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2008.

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• Why isn't the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for animal actors? The industry isn't allowed to pick and choose which movies using young children it will or won't allow to be monitored. The vulnerable should be protected.

  Elayne Boosler

  Children, Animal, Organization

  "Yes, Animals Were Harmed in the Making of This Motion Picture" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

  Richard Burr

  Reality, Light, Reliability

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• Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

  Jane Campion

  Home, Trying, Directors

  "Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. October 117, 2009.

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• It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Different, Actors, Stranger

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• We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Victory, Steel, Fool

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.

  Kim Cattrall

  Havens, Has Beens

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• Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.

  Hillary Clinton

  Left, Marginalized, Left Out

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• Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

  Rachel Cusk

  Children, Writing, Creativity

  "Rachel Cusk: in praise of the creative writing course" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2013.

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