Marianne Williamson Quotes
The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
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Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.
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Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?
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Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity.
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Giving blood, or being near a needle, is the absolute worst.
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At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.
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If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
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Since I always go to work as Elvira, maybe a giant version of a cat. A black cat. I love cats and I think Elvira would look really good sitting on one.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.
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But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.
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The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.
