Marianne Williamson Quotes
We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.
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The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I never was a very good singer.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.
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Sports fans have an unbelievable ability at the end of the day, when the game comes on, to kind of put everything aside and watch the game.
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Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction. While political leaders in both parties have long considered it untouchable, it actually helps those at the top of the income scale far more than those at the bottom.
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Herman Cain has moved ahead of Mitt Romney. Can you believe that? Political analysts say this is because Americans don't understand Mormonism but they do understand pizza.
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Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie.
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We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.
