Mark Victor Hansen Quotes
Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life.
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.
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Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
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Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.
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If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.
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I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
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Kansas is great - and great for America, when, more and more, we honor every human life everywhere.
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A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
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I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.
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See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.
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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
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Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.
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The Gospels were written in such temporal and geographical proximity to the events they record that it would have been almost impossible to fabricate events. Anyone who cared to could have checked out the accuracy of what they reported. The fact that the disciples were able to proclaim the resurrection in Jerusalem in the face of their enemies a few weeks after the crucifixion shows that what they proclaimed was true, for they could never have proclaimed the resurrection under such circumstances had it not occurred.
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Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life.
