Marianne Williamson Quotes
The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.
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Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
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By nature I'm sort of an introvert.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.
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The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.
