Marianne Williamson Quotes
Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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Women are sacred.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.
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I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.
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I love the process - collaborating with the photographers, traveling, and seeing different cultures. My mother always said I would regret it if I didn't do it. And I think she was right.
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'Snowpiercer' is a little bit more experimental, I think, and crafted for a slightly different audience. 'The Giver' is more about teen angst.
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If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.
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I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'
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Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.
