Marianne Williamson Quotes
The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.
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In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.
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I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.
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I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others.
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Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring.
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The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.
