Barbara Marx Hubbard Quotes
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.
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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
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...nothing is desperately important and the joy of life is just looking at it.
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If it wasn't for John Peel, there would be no Joy Division and no New Order. He was one of the few people to give bands that played alternative music a chance to get heard, and he continued to be a champion of cutting-edge music throughout his life.
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It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.
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In times of joy and sorrow, love or hate, peace and unrest, music has always been an important outlet for expressing our emotions individually and as a nation.
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I'm the rogue Canadian in my family – I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.
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With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit, I was terribly spoiled and I thought I couldn't do anything wrong. I was also desperate to make tons of money because of my responsibility to my daughter. And there was no longer any joy in making music.
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I'm just constantly on the verge of bursting into tears with joy.
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There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it.
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Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
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And knowledge management is a means, not an end.
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I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.
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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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My brownness is something that I can't hide. There are some straight-acting or straight-passing queer people out there, but I'm not one of them. This is something I would rather not have to hide.
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Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy.
