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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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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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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I know they call me a crazy lady, but I'm only interested in making movies and having people see them.
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We look at the number of engineers coming out of India; we look at the growth of the economy, and it's clear that India is a place we want to be.
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I'm not the type of guy who wants the credit.
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I think we will be safer when we can concentrate law enforcement and criminal justice resources and energies on those individuals who truly need, for the safety of society... to be incarcerated.
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I was obsessed with New York early on. I was watching sitcoms that were set in or around New York, like 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.' I was always very fascinated with the people who were on 'What's My Line?' and I always had an incredible obsession with the city.
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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.
