Marianne Williamson Quotes
Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
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There I was as a kid: a closeted homosexual who wants to be an actress. I had no choice! Wanting to act was something I was wired with when I was born. I never thought I would have success or celebrity, although I did want that. But what I wanted more than anything was to work.
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An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.
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I grew up on a farm in South Africa, so I’ve always been surrounded by animals. I was raised by a mother who always had great compassion and respect toward animals. It was instilled in me. I grew up that way. So when I see dogs or other animals suffer, it’s just been something close to my heart.
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There are few people in this world with whom I can converse.
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Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.
