Marianne Williamson Quotes
Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.
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Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.
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All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
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Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.
