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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I have cystic acne, and sometimes when I have a breakout, it triggers me back to that time when I was a teen and I feel so self-conscious - like the whole world is looking at my bad skin. I've definitely not gone out of the house because of a breakout, which is horrible.
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It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.
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If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.
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It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.
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The world is in his cloak - figures peer out of its folds - mythological figures and snakes and pigs and flowers, naked fauns and heavy-breasted sirens and horses' heads - they sprawl on the flagstones at his feet and peep out from under his arms...
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The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.
