Marianne Williamson Quotes
Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.
Quotes to Explore
-
Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
-
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
-
It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
-
The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
-
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
-
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
-
Everybody has their struggles.
-
The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
-
I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
-
Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
-
Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
-
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
-
I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
-
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
-
Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
-
In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
-
The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
-
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
-
What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, youve got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.
-
I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl.
-
I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.
-
I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
-
I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
-
Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.
