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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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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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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Reinforcement is being right.
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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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Arsenal are streets ahead of everyone in this league and Manchester United are up there with them.
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The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
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power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.
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What do I think of myself? I know my worth. I know my value. I know I have to lead by example. I can't just be all over the place. I put the energy out that I want given back to me. And again, I'm true to me.
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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.
