Marianne Williamson Quotes
Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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I'm glad to say I'm experiencing more of a conversation in my artistic workforce world than I ever have before. But it's a job, as an artist, to reflect the world we live in; that's our job.
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The demonization of people who don't have a voice is particularly despicable, and the only thing we can do in our own little way is hold a mirror up to society and kind of say we're better than that.
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Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.
