Marianne Williamson Quotes
The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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I want to love. I want to enjoy life.
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Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we, as black people, we're never going to be successful - not because of you white people but because of other black people. When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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I just want to keep saturating the market and radio with as many hit records as I can.
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The U.S., together with trans-Atlantic allies, never recognized the occupation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union. Moscow faced pressure or retaliation every time it tried to move toward official recognition, or at least acceptance, of its claim that the Baltic states were Soviet republics.
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The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'
