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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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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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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
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Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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I think something I've been drawn to about the people I work with is that they seem to be - like me - people who are a little insane, and have to make music. It's not a choice they're making for the sake of vanity - like it's cool to be in a band.
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Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.
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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.
