Vulnerable Quotes - Page 9

• I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable.

  Julian Assange

  People, Helping, Enjoy

  "WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the 'War Logs': 'I Enjoy Crushing Bastards'". Interview to Spiegel, www.commondreams.org. July 26, 2010.

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• The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deemed these events "unlikely."

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Government, Worry, Risk

  "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, April 17, 2007.

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• As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

  Adrienne Clarkson

  Country, People, Shelter

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• Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Rising, Crash, Economy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think there are many experts who say, in fact, the most powerful nations on earth are more vulnerable today than the weaker nations because they're the targets of so many of these groups that are trying to steal, to buy, to build nuclear weapons.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Powerful, Thinking, Trying

  "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. April 18, 2010.

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• It takes courage to say, "I need help" and to be vulnerable and accept advice from people who may be wiser than you are. It takes courage to die to ourselves so we can become fully alive in a love and hope and freedom that only come when we do push our pride away.

  Anne Marie Miller

  Pride, People, Advice

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I find it ironic and unfortunately because people are very vulnerable to populism now these days because they are desperate, we had really difficult times and we had difficult decisions to make. It is natural and it is logical to have people trying to not to vote for Syriza but to vote against the big parties that were in the Government for the last decade. So it is something that you can explain that way.

  Eva Kaili

  Party, Government, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• It's easier to be more vulnerable in a smaller environment. It's hard to expect your actors to be able to open up in that way and stay with the level of focus needed when there's so many people on stage.

  Sadie Calvano

  People, Focus, Actors

  "Interview: ‘Mom’ star Sadie Calvano discusses CBS’ dramatic comedy". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. December 18, 2014.

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• For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

  Walton Goggins

  People, Violent, Used

  Source: collider.com

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• Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable.

  Salman Rushdie

  Views, World, Uncertain

  Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor', www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust in paper money: it makes no sense when you really think about it. New artistic images are so vulnerable to opinion that it wouldn't take much more than a whim for a small group of collectors to decide that a contemporary artist was not so wonderful anymore, was so last year.

  Steve Martin

  Art, Thinking, Years

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• Whatever comes and goes, is not reality. See the event as event only. Then you are vulnerable to reality, no longer armoured against it, as you were when you gave reality to events and experiences.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Events, Comes And Goes

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• You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

  Bob Dylan

  Reality, Darkness, Way

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• How do you know if the next act you are about to do is the right one or the wrong one? Consider the face of the poorest and most vulnerable human being that you have ever chanced upon, and ask yourself if the act that you contemplate will be of benefit to that person; and if it will be, it's the right thing to do, and if not, rethink it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Benefits, Next, Faces

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• I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.

  Grace Jones

  Doors, Opening Up, Sides

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• Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more powerful and more vulnerable at the same time.

  Dale Peck

  Powerful, Gay, Rights

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough.

  Paul Haggis

  Jobs, Thinking, Brave

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, I have having the time of my life playing this character [Louis Litt]. At times, it's unbelievably challenging and scary, when it comes to certain vulnerable areas that I don't necessarily want to go.

  Rick Hoffman

  Character, Scary, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• Because I'm fat, people believe I'm somehow vulnerable and easy to handle in a negotiation. Ever try to negotiate with a fat guy? We can be mean: Marvin Davis, Harvey Weinstein, Hermann Goering. No one screws around with us for long.

  Bernie Brillstein

  Believe, Mean, Long

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• The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who wield power in it; and the more he trusts those who wield such power, the more vulnerable he makes himself to becoming their victim.

  Thomas Szasz

  Becoming, Victim, Social

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• Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.

  Michael Schudson

  Character, Government, Age

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.16, Routledge

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• There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen.

  Brené Brown

  Creativity, Winning, Showing Up

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• We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying... I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.

  Julian Assange

  Crush, Meaningful, People

  "WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the 'War Logs': 'I Enjoy Crushing Bastards'". Interview to Spiegel, www.commondreams.org. July 26, 2010.

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• It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Intelligent, Knowing

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• Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.

  M. Scott Peck

  Acceptance, Love Is, Listening To Others

  M. Scott Peck (2012). “The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, p.116, Random House

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