Marianne Williamson Quotes
Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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Our nation is today a powerful nation.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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Terror increases the need for attachment, even if the source of comfort is also the source of terror.
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I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
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So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.
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I don't want to play in pain. I'm 25, it's my life.
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Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.
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Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.
