Marianne Williamson Quotes
I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I'm a proud family man.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I love cycling.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect - or a negative effect! - on employee performance.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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My goal for children's books is to have them become tableside or bedside classics. To me, it would be awesome to write a book that every kid would end up reading at some point in their life because influencing kids in a positive way at such a young age is really cool.
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I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.
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Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
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I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.
