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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.
-
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
-
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.
-
I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
-
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.
-
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.
-
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
-
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.
-
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
-
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
-
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
-
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
-
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
-
In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
-
By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.
-
A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
-
For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like Bad Brains and Stimulators, because those were, like, the local bands. Then I started getting into bands from England like the Slits. I remember seeing Gang of Four at Irving Plaza; that was a really big show for me.
-
I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
-
I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.
-
The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.
