Marianne Williamson Quotes
I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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No one person is an island.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.
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At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
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Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'
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The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.
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I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.
