Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Africa is the future.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.
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The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.
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The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.
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While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to survive, but to persevere and rebuild their shattered lives.
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The hinterlands. Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.
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The Bible is different because it is the Word of God, by which He speaks to me. Disagreeing with the Bible would be disagreeing with God. So when I read the Bible I want to place myself ‘under’ it. I want to receive the Scripture in such a way that over time, my thinking, feeling, choosing, believing and behaving will be molded by the Word God is speaking into my life. I don’t want to critique the Scriptures; I want them to critique me and change me.
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'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.
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Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode on which the poem is based in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.
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The holidays are only holy if we make them so.
