Barbara Marx Hubbard Quotes
My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded the sinfulness of humanity when I suffered to reveal your godliness and to overcome your guilt by demonstrating that you can totally rise above the death of the body.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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We anticipate countries increasing their spending on infrastructure like railways, airports, power plants and ports. Our heavy forging plant has the capacity to cater to each of these segments.
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At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.
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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
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I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.
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The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.
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For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.
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None of this 'there is no way to continue' bullshit. Because it is pure and utter SHIT.
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Παῖδες γὰρ ἀνδρὶ κληδόνες σωτήριοιθανόντι.
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When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.
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I think Dirk [Gently] thinks that he's a brilliant detective, but he's the worst detective, ever. He does have this particular skill, which I suppose you might call a really bad superpower because it's just not very helpful. He is able to sense the connections between things and he's nearly always right, but the problem is that he never knows what to do with any of those messages that he receives from the universe, so he just acts on things and gets himself into terrible trouble, all the time.
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Shamelessly supporting and whitewashing terrible crimes against humanity.
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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
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My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded the sinfulness of humanity when I suffered to reveal your godliness and to overcome your guilt by demonstrating that you can totally rise above the death of the body.
