Marianne Williamson Quotes
The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical and, as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.
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My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.
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I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
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If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.
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The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
