Barbara Marx Hubbard Quotes
I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful.
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
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We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
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I have been told that Your Excellency follows the teachings of Jesus (PBUH)
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Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.
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…satyromaniacal…
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Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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The idea that a story has to be 'exceptional' in order to be worth telling is curious to me. What if we looked at every single person's story as a site of possibly infinite meaning? What if we came to believe that there isn't hubris or narcissism in thinking your story might be worth sharing - only a sense of curiosity and offering?
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When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.
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Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural things. It is more exciting to stand still than to dance. Silence is more eloquent than speech. Water is more stimulating than wine. Fresh air is more intoxicating than cigarette smoke. Sunlight is more subtle than electric light. The scent of grass is more luxurious than the most expensive perfume. The slow, simple observations of the peasant are more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit.
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There were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives.
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I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful.
