Vulnerable Quotes - Page 7

• I think so many people give us ideas of what we are. I think as women especially, because we're sensitive by nature, we're more vulnerable, we absorb other people's ideas about what we're supposed to think or who we're supposed to be and how we're supposed to act.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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• I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.

  Moby

  Albums, Bombastic, Subtlety

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

  Steve Martin

  Years, Criticism, Remember

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• I approached UNHCR because I believe in what the United Nations. I believe refugees are the most vulnerable people in the world. They are affected by everything, including landmines. They are vulnerable to everything.

  Angelina Jolie

  Believe, People, World

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• One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed by the industrial revolution by people looking for work wherever they can find it. And a nuclear family, a man, a woman and kids and a dog and cat is no survival scheme at all. Horribly vulnerable.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dog, Cat, Kids

  "Now" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2005.

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• Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

  Bill Gates

  Disease, Ninety, Cases

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• As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

  Jeanette Winterson

  People, Prepared, Allowing

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• The most powerful thing we have is our psyche. And to use our minds, we must be clear, vulnerable and open, which will take us to places we didn't even know were there or couldn't imagine ourselves going.

  Gary Busey

  Powerful, Mind, Use

  Interview with Chet Cooper and Lia Martirosyan, abilitymagazine.com. April 2014.

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• You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Work Out, Way, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Achievement, Notable

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social-Cognitive Theory". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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• When I was a kid, I did want to be a boy. I didn't like to play with dolls, and most of my friends were kind of sensitive, sissy boys. But as I got older, the mystique of being a girl began to interest me. It was confusing what sexuality was, and the responses of other people, but it didn't make me feel terrified or vulnerable.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Girl, Kids, Boys

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2009.

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• Sex is the killer. Sexual love makes you feel more vulnerable than any other kind of love. That's one reason that people are so thorny and so vulnerable and so easily wounded when in love.

  Vivian Gornick

  Sex, People, Killers

  "We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was". Interview with Madeleine Schwartz, believermag.com. March 24, 2014.

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• We all grew up so utterly vulnerable, enthralled by romantic love as we knew it. First of all, it was pounded into you every which way that you've got to get married and you've got to have babies. That you're not a natural woman if you don't. So that led to a lot of sitting by the telephone and waiting for a call. And that led you into a culture in which you were always in a subordinate position without realizing it; hamstrung, not able to take action. That was the most important thing: you were always waiting to be desired.

  Vivian Gornick

  Baby, Romantic Love, Waiting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• For me, being vulnerable is asking for help from other people whatever it may be.

  Mason Jennings

  Asking For Help, People, May

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• When social movements engage in legal reform, they often mobilize images of people from their constituent population who most match national norms about what "deserving citizens" are like, and use those people as spokespeople and as lead plaintiffs in legal cases. This strategy requires that people who are experiencing intersectional harm - who are vulnerable through multiple vectors of demonization and marginalization - be further marginalized and disappeared by the advocacy.

  Dean Spade

  People, Reform, Population

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• Legal reform organizations are usually trying to portray their constituents as "hard workers," as "not criminals," as citizens, as part of normative family arrangements, and as conforming to white norms as much as possible. When these strategies are used, the most dangerous conditions and the people who are most vulnerable cannot be discussed or addressed.

  Dean Spade

  Hard Work, Organization, White

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• We must experiment, fail, and try again, but beginning with a critique of legal reform and a commitment to center the most vulnerable moves us away from some of the most common, obvious pitfalls of neoliberal social movement strategies.

  Dean Spade

  Moving, Commitment, Trying

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.

  Jan Brett

  Teacher, Kids, Creative

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Moonlight is very honest and very special to me. I feel like this is the most personal music I've made, by far. I'm very proud of it and I'm very excited. It's scary...it's vulnerable and kind of terrifying.

  Ariana Grande

  Scary, Special, Proud

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• That is a goal, to step out on stage and to actually be present. Honestly alive and present. Although, it doesn't always happen. We're fallible, we're imperfect. That's what a lot of books are written about; that's what a lot of religions have sought after is that kind of zen mentality of just being totally neutral and open and vulnerable to all of the forces in the universe without being attached to them.

  Dan Mangan

  Book, Goal, Alive

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• I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist and to avoid indulging in my misery, or to come off as an exhibitionist. I don't want to make the listener complicit in my vulnerable prose poem of depression, I just want to honor the experience. I'm not the victim here, and I'm not seeking other peoples' sympathy. I don't blame my parents, they did the best they could.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Artist, Parent, Honor

  "True Myth: A Conversation With Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 16, 2015.

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• My dissatisfaction with acting has nothing to do with being uncomfortable or vulnerable or feeling like people are going to criticize me. That's not the problem.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  People, Feelings, Acting

  Source: dishmag.com

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• Sin regardless of how you get there is a vulnerable and a dangerous place to be. Living in unforgiveness is living in an unsafe place.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• There is no weapon in the feminine armory to which men are so vulnerable as they are to a smile.

  Dorothy Dix

  Smile, Men, Weapons

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• Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I'm sarcastic, it's quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest. To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it's asking a lot of someone who's used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.

  Ben Folds

  Sarcastic, Writing, Singing

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