Marianne Williamson Quotes
God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
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Style icons feel like they have to be so thin, and when I see somebody with a fuller figure like Scarlet Johansson, who is sexy and happy, I find it such a relief.
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Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
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God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.
