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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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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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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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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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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Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.
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It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.
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This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.
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The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.
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There is always something missing that torments me.
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I think President Barack Obama came to office with quite fundamental understandings in his mind about what's possible and what's not possible in the Middle East. The first, I would say, revolutionary breakthrough that he introduced is that the Middle East doesn't matter to American geostrategy as much as we think.
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In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.
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God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.
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Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy.
