Barbara Marx Hubbard Quotes
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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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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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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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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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
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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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'If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.'
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...nothing is desperately important and the joy of life is just looking at it.
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LSD wanted to tell me something. … It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.
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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 sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy.
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So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return.
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I believe there's something in the Bible about 'Thou shalt not call anyone insane who owns and is competent with more firearms than you own sharp sticks.'
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I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.
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Old-school Dire Straits songs are on heavy rotation: 'So Far Away,' 'Romeo and Juliet' and of course 'Sultans of Swing.'
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Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy.
