Marianne Williamson Quotes
If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
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I'm always amused when the 'New York Times' writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, 'This is the way Republicans can save themselves.' Look, the 'New York Times' disagrees with us. They're entitled to disagree with us, but it's not like we should take their advice.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
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When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A middle-aged American woman will head over, and I think, 'Game of Thrones.' Turns out it's 'The Tudors' or 'Elementary' or 'The Hunger Games.' It's always a surprise.
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Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.
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I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.
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He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
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If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.
