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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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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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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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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My hockey is good, but my ice skating is terrible. It's a bit of a mess to watch!
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The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project - in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World - will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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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.
