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• It was a very vulnerable time going from being insecure about my body and who I am to becoming comfortable with me. I had to tune out what the hell everybody else had to say about who I was. When I was able to do that, I felt free.

  Queen Latifah

  Insecure, Who I Am, Tunes

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time

  Francesca Annis

  Hair, Weather, Looks

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• I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.

  Kathy Ireland

  Choices

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• For me, comedy should have a certain amount of joy in it. It should be about attacking the powerful - the politicians, the Trumps, the blowhards - going after them. We shouldn't be attacking the vulnerable.

  Craig Ferguson

  Powerful, Should Have, Joy

  "Late Night: Craig Ferguson in line to be the new David Letterman" by Edward Helmore, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2014.

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• But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something.

  John Lone

  Waiting, Feelings, Important

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• I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.

  Robert Guillaume

  Impact, Racism, Racist

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• When you get in the water with a wild animal, you're essentially giving yourself to that animal because, as humans, we're quite helpless and vulnerable in the water. You're at the seal's mercy. You're at the predator's mercy.

  Paul Nicklen

  Animal, Giving, Water

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• Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all feeling beings. We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable, the victims, all those dominated, oppressed and exploited. And it is the non-human animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned of all.

  Henry Spira

  Animal, Feelings, Suffering

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• I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.

  Allan Stratton

  Drama, Writing, Character

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• We are always in the space in-between... all the spaces where you are not actually at home. You haven't arrived yet.... This is where our mind is the most open. We are alert, we are sensitive, and destiny can happen. We do not have any barriers and we are vulnerable. Vulnerability is important. It means we are completely alive and this is an extremely important space. This is for me the space from which my work generates.

  Marina Abramovic

  Home, Mean, Destiny

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• I think it takes a lot of confidence to be comfortable in being vulnerable.

  Ciara

  Thinking, Comfortable

  "EXCLUSIVE: Ciara on One Woman Army, Being Vulnerable and Who Her New Song 'Sorry' is Really About". Interview with Yolanda Sangweni, www.essence.com. September 10, 2012.

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• Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly.

  John F. Kerry

  Running, Country, Responsibility

  "President Obama's strategy against ISIS remains unclear". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2014.

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• I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be touched, to reveal how vulnerable we are, how transient.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Writing, Like Love, Risk

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• For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we’ll tread through any flame.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Flames, Ideas, Desire

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.213, Penguin

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• What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?

  Pauline Kael

  Getting Older, Way, Learning More

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.

  Uta Hagen

  Needs, Abandoned, Difficult

  Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.

  Alan Shepard

  Peace, Fighting, Space

  "What Does Moon Flight Mean Now" by Josh Getlin, The Seattle Times, p. A10, July 19, 1994.

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• When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be hurt, and not only by the people we love, but for the people we love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Hurt, Pain, People

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• Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

  Brian Aldiss

  Writing, Pride, Reality

  "Bury My Heart at W. H. Smith's". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1990.

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• Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

  Robert Bork

  Fashion, Wind, Law

  Robert H. Bork (1984). “Tradition and Morality in Constitutional Law”, Aei Press

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• I'm holding out a little hope personally because I want to be back, but this injury could take a year to fully recover. The last thing I want to do is feel like I'm OK, come out early and be vulnerable to further injury.

  Paul George

  Years, Want, Littles

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• I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me. I fall in love much too quickly and that results in me getting badly hurt. The problem with love is that you lose control and that is a very vulnerable state to be in. I would love to really have a beautiful relationship with somebody, but it never seems to work out. What I would like most of all is to be in a state of blissful love.

  Freddie Mercury

  Love, Beautiful, Hurt

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• There are many images and realities of what women are, become, can be - strong, vulnerable, dogged, determined, frail, brave, courageous. The faces of women are at once gentle, reflective, firm; steeped with a sense of self, the lives of women growing older are lives of care, toil, splendour and glory... the future is not to be feared.

  Jocelynne Scutt

  Strong, Women, Reality

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• A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born in developing nations. Our energy-burning lifestyles are pushing our planet to the point of no return. It is dawning on us at last that the life of our world is as vulnerable as the children we raise.

  George Carey

  Country, Children, Our World

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• In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing megachurches, Christian yellow-page businesses, or womb-to-tomb Christian cultural ghettoes-they lose the outward thrusting, transforming power that is at the heart of the gospel. Instead of being 'salt' and 'light' -images of a permeating and penetrating action-Christians and Christian institutions become soft and vulnerable to corruption from within.

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Heart, Practice

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