Marianne Williamson Quotes
I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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I got joked on. You had people saying I was stupid, that I was lame, that I was feminine, this and that. I was like, 'OK, but I'm still gonna be successful, and you're not.'
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.
