Vulnerable Quotes - Page 38

• The theory of the IRS is rather repugnant to me because the assumption is made that I, the government, owns 100% of your income and I permit you to keep 5%, 10% or 20%. You're vulnerable, you've sold out. The government can take 80% if they want, which they did at one time.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Income, Irs

  "Ron Paul | Candidates at Google". Interview with Elliot Schrage, www.youtube.com. July 14, 2007.

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• When I was younger, I was reticent to be vulnerable on camera and everything I was doing was just a really finely honed defense mechanism from when I was a kid, and I was now using this to make a living on camera.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Kids, Cameras, Defense

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I don't think grief of grief in a medical way at all. I think that I and many of my colleagues, are very concerned when grief becomes pathological, that there is no question that grief can trigger depression in vulnerable people and there is no question that depression can make grief worse.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Grief, Thinking, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions.

  Jo Bonner

  September 11, Spain, World

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• To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Alive

  "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1972.

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• A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.

  Alex Carey

  Views, Culture, World

  Alex Carey, Andrew Lohrey (1997). “Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

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• We've already seen shifts happening in some of the big companies - Google, Apple - that now understand how vulnerable their customer data is, and that if it's vulnerable, then their business is, too, and so you see a beefing up of encryption technologies. At the same time, no programs have been dismantled at the governmental level, despite international pressure.

  Laura Poitras

  Technology, Data, Apples

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• I have always been interested in crafting films that use long, static urban landscape shots as a way of manipulating the emotions of the viewer and forcing them to slow down, which I think simultaneously makes them more vulnerable as spectators, and also puts them in a position of being more than just spectators.

  Jenni Olson

  Thinking, Long, Use

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Tennessee, Helping, Help Me

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• The danger to a free society is not the guns owned by the citizens but an unconstrained government.... An armed society is a self-governing society, just as a disarmed people are vulnerable to arbitrary power of every kind.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Gun, Government, Self

  "Guns and Liberty". Mises Daily, June 03, 1999.

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• I think I'm a good writer. I think I have my own voice, which is unique to everyone, everyone has their own voice; if they would just write from a vulnerable embarrassing place, it's going to be universal and it's going to be entertaining. Because everyone is the same and everyone is unique.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Writing, Thinking, Unique

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Figure out the one solution - not three - that you want to see happen. There were quite a few things we could have gone after but we decided to focus on the commanders and that was a strategic decision because that, for us, would be the most vulnerable point and the most effective one that could immediately change.

  Amy Ziering

  Focus, Decision, Would Be

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's harder to reveal sides of yourself that make you vulnerable but it's another muscle that can be developed and one that I think is worthwhile. That said, everyone finds their style. It's personal.

  Ted Alexandro

  Thinking, Style, Sides

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Domesticated animals such as dogs and cats are vulnerable and entirely dependent on us for all of their needs. They live very unnatural lives because they are not part of the human world and they are not part of the animal world.

  Gary L. Francione

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Interview with Deb Olin Unferth, believermag.com. February 1, 2011.

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• Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters of discussion have become narrowed. People, when they're fearful, are vulnerable to certainty in rhetoric.

  Dana Spiotta

  People, Simplicity, Ease

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Variety

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• Winnowing is more like a trip to the confessional...transparent & vulnerable without being sentimental. These songs have elements that are more like prayers & pleas for faith. They're questionings and wrangling in the dark about the journey.

  Bill Mallonee

  Song, Prayer, Dark

  "Out of the High Deserts: An Interview with Critically Acclaimed Songwriter, Bill Mallonee". Interview with Matt Litton, mattlitton.com.

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• When you like someone, you have to allow yourself to be vulnerable enough to let them in. Love is messy.

  Jocelyn Davies

  Love Is, Enough, Messy

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• I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen.

  Keegan Connor Tracy

  Girl, Vixens, Extremes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Faith is a vulnerable thing, not a battle.

  David Bazan

  Battle

  "ISMS" by Ryan Phipps, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2016.

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• I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.

  Noah Hawley

  Years, Relax, Cuba

  Noah Hawley (2005). “Other People's Weddings”, p.150, Macmillan

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• Meditation gives you more inner strength and confidence, and if you don't feel vulnerable, you can put that to the service of others. So it's not just about sitting and cultivating caring mindfulness. It's building up a way of being and then using it for the service of others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Caring, Building Up, Giving

  "This Buddhist Monk Has Unlocked The Secret To Happiness, And It May Help Us Save The Environment". Interview with Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2015.

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• We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Home, Dark

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• Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer than raw emotion and raw feeling. I think the best writing does that too. Untamed passion basically results in bad writing or bad polemics, which so many writers and public intellectuals are vulnerable to.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Passion, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'd like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women - independent women but also very vulnerable women.

  Rachel Weisz

  Independent, Play, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

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