Marianne Williamson Quotes
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.
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If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.
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Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.
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This is love, moving to where the money is, and all the while a volcano or an ex-girlfriend might blow the whole thing to hell, as the Americans say. As everybody says.
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It is important to remember that if we treat people who could be allies as enemies, we can only alienate them from our cause.
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I want to go to college and go back to Georgetown. It's a really cool place.
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The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
