Marianne Williamson Quotes
We embrace the idea -- advanced by both ancient philosophers and modern physicists -- that the world is one. Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
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We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.
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It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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I'm totally myself.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
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Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.
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It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.
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Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.
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We embrace the idea -- advanced by both ancient philosophers and modern physicists -- that the world is one. Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.
