Marianne Williamson Quotes
When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.
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When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they don't want to see that movie. They'd rather see "Godzilla."
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We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
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A relationship can be deeply damaging without anyone leaving marks on you. So many people - especially young women - end up trying to maintain those emotionally abusive relationships because we don't think it's that bad and that we are really some of the lucky ones because we haven't experienced 'real' abuse.
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Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.
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When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.
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When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.
