Marianne Williamson Quotes
The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain the sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments. Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. It is all we can offer in return for the mystery by which we live. Who is worthy to be present at the constant unfolding of time?
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The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer.
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Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
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The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
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Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.
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The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.
