Vulnerability Quotes - Page 19

• It's fair to say that, by 'X-Men 3,' Wolverine had gone a little soft, and I agree with them there. What fans love about Wolverine is his more uncompromising approach to life. He is who he is. He's not always a nice guy. He has got edge. He's an anti-hero. And, there's also a vulnerability in there. There is conflict and battles going on in there.

  Hugh Jackman

  Nice, Hero, Men

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• I do think - you look at actually what WikiLeaks came out with, most of it was just gossipy interest, except for like this Doug Band memo from a Clinton crony in black and white who explained the Clinton Foundation was a profit center for Bill Clinton and people around him.The Russians didn't make that up, that was all Hillary's [Clinton] vulnerability her own.

  Rich Lowry

  Black And White, Thinking, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• A lot of countries have advanced capabilities. And given the vulnerabilities of our infrastructure and our economies to digital platforms, we have to be careful in making sure that this doesn't become a lawless, low-level battlefield.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Digital, Levels

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that and I am open enough to say it.

  Naomi Campbell

  Blame, Enough, Accepting

  "Naomi Campbell: 'Everyone has a temper'". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2013.

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• On the question of women's sexual freedom or female independence, there are still issues that haven't been worked out. There's an aura of traditional gender roles that is not talked about that really permeates these conversations. There is this vacillation between a desire for independence and having the kinds of sexual freedom that men have and, on the other side, issues about female vulnerability and susceptibility to male aggression and violence. We need more honesty about the actual conditions in which sex is happening.

  Laura Kipnis

  Sex, Honesty, Men

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Business schools need to help students learn how to thrive under pressure. To understand themselves and their psychological vulnerability that might inhibit their ability to be effective in roles that involve ongoing complexity and duress. Preparation is essential.

  Justin Menkes

  School, Preparation, Helping

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

  Desmond Tutu

  Compassion, Empathy, Soul

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• Living one's life with unguarded vulnerability is one of the keys to happiness. It's also one of the keys to getting mugged.

  Dov Davidoff

  Happiness, Keys

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• If you are strong you can take a punch and not flinch, but if you have a sore spot, a nudge on that sore spot will make you scream. Muslims committed the huge blunder of revealing their vulnerability. Now the world knows what hurts them. When you find your opponent's weak spot, it is exactly where you want to hit him.

  Ali Sina

  Hurt, Strong, Want

  Source: myislam.dk

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• It hit her like a sledgehammer, and it was then that she knew what to feel. A liquid trail of hate flooded her chest. Knowing that she would hate him long and well filled her with pleasant anticipation, like when you know you are going to fall in love with someone and you wait for the happy signs. Hating BoyBoy, she could get on with it, and have the safety, the thrill, the consistency of that hatred as long as she wanted or needed it to define and strengthen her or protect her from routine vulnerabilities.

  Toni Morrison

  Falling In Love, Hate, Knowing

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• I've come to this belief that, if you show me a woman who can sit with a man in real vulnerability, in deep fear, and be with him in it, I will show you a woman who, A, has done her work and, B, does not derive her power from that man. And if you show me a man who can sit with a woman in deep struggle and vulnerability and not try to fix it, but just hear her and be with her and hold space for it, I'll show you a guy who's done his work and a man who doesn't derive his power from controlling and fixing everything.

  Brené Brown

  Real, Struggle, Men

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• One's strongest asset is simultaneously his point of strongest vulnerability.

  Harry Levinson

  Wealth, Assets, Strongest

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• If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.

  Mitch Albom

  Pain, Grief, Way

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• You can show a guy sort of peeking over the wall, you can see a guy tunneling underneath, you can see a guy going through the front door. All of those, in cyber terms, are vulnerabilities, because it's not that you have to look for one hole of a specific type. It's the whole paradigm.

  Edward Snowden

  Wall, Doors, Guy

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

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• A zero-day exploit is a method of hacking a system. It's sort of a vulnerability that has an exploit written for it, sort of a key and a lock that go together to a given software package. It could be an internet web server. It could be Microsoft Office. It could be Adobe Reader or it could be Facebook.

  Edward Snowden

  Zero, Keys, Office

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing it when we find it, instead we put it on the shelf so we can use it the next time we want to launch an attack against some foreign country. We're leaving ourselves at risk.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Leaving, Insecurity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When the United States cannibalize dollars from the defensive business of the NSA, securing our communications, protecting our systems, patching zero-day vulnerabilities, and instead we're giving those dollars to be used for creating new vulnerabilities in our systems so that they can surveil us and other people abroad who use the same systems.

  Edward Snowden

  Zero, Communication, Nsa

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's vulnerability - so I have to make sure the audience is certain that I know what I'm doing. There's vulnerability there because my heart is open, but at the same time I definitely have a lot of "weapons" at my disposal. I have all the language, I have all of the moment - I have all of that to spar with somebody, to take anything on.

  Margaret Cho

  Heart, Weapons, Language

  "'I Want to Talk About How We Can Use Our Anger to Heal': Badass Comic Margaret Cho Dishes". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.alternet.org. September 30, 2015.

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• I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Thinking, Trying

  Francis Bacon (1987). “Francis Bacon: Retrospektive”

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• If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

  Barbara Mertz

  Lying, Weakness, Down And

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• Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.

  Judith Butler

  Revenge, Trying, Violence

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.

  Rick Warren

  Pathways, Authenticity, Intimacy

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• Actually,” I said, hesitant to bring it up, “I was thinking along the lines of a curse that can turn you human.” “Or witch?” Ivy said, surprising me. There was a soft vulnerability in her and I blinked. “You don’t want to be a witch,” I said quickly. “Why not? You are.

  Kim Harrison

  Thinking, Ivy, Why Not

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• But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering free food includes strivers as well as slackers, habitual optimists as well as the chronically depressed. When and if the economy recovers we can never allow ourselves to forget how widespread our vulnerability is, how easy it is to spiral down toward destitution.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Offering, Should Have, Ideas

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.155, Macmillan

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• I found my mind has changed over the last years. Different vulnerabilities - things that I was never vulnerable to before I am now. And vice-versa. Things I was vulnerable to then are like water off a duck's back. I have a lot less fear. I think I'm getting more determined.

  Paolo Nutini

  Thinking, Years, Ducks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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