Vulnerable Quotes - Page 23

• As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

  Jim DeMint

  Government, People, Reform

  "DeMint Weighs In". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most of us care to imagine. Cities, after all, for all their massiveness, all their there-ness, are acutely vulnerable.

  Junot Diaz

  Thinking, Cities, Needs

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• There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.

  Lena Dunham

  Tattoo, People, Giving

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• The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Impact, Atmosphere

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• The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.

  Al Franken

  Vision, Balance, Citizens

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.

  John Frusciante

  People, Energy, Way

  Interview with Evan C Chase, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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• The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

  Daniel Goleman

  Taken, Anxiety, Mind

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• As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

  Al Gore

  Inspirational, Confusing, Everyday

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

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Money, Business

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• Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.

  Bear Grylls

  Eye, Looks, Ems

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• I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

  Hugh Jackman

  People, Looks, Gone

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

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• Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Immature, Environmental, Tissues

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• Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Shoes, Strange, Situation

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• We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.

  John Lynch

  Senior, Children, Responsibility

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• In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

  Joe Manchin

  Morning, Virginia, People

  "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. October 24, 2010.

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• Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

  Mike Mills

  Animal, Space, Want

  "'Indie' director Mike Mills is as happy shooting for Nike as Sonic Youth". Interview with Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Interesting, Mystery, Absolutes

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• I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

  Alanis Morissette

  Empowering, Truthful, Found

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• The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Confused, Opposites

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• In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

  Bob Ney

  Believe, Views, Law

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• The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Self, Leader

  "In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1989.

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• I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

  Katy Perry

  Bravery, Magic, Secret

  "Katy Conquers All" by Claire Hoffman, www.marieclaire.com. December 9, 2013.

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• I think you become more relatable when you're vulnerable.

  Katy Perry

  Thinking, Relatable

  "Katy Conquers All" by Claire Hoffman, www.marieclaire.com. December 9, 2013.

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• There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds.

  Rick Perry

  Heart, Games, Evil

  "Craziest Anti-Obama Gun Reactions" by Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2013.

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• It takes years for me to trust; I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Years, Knows, Reluctant

  "Michelle Pfeiffer Talks Trust, Vulnerability And Her Empty Nest" by Liz Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2012.

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