Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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I love bayou life.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.
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White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.
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I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.
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The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
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Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.
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Angry people cannot create a peaceful planet.
