Marianne Williamson Quotes
A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.
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History reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.
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I wrote the first version of this book in 1996, in the closing years of the twentieth century. Now, almost two decades into the twenty-first, it seems we are still struggling with what W. E. B. Du Bois identified in 1906 as the “problem of the color line,” even though the demographic composition of that color line has changed quite a bit since then.
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When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.
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Hiding is for amateurs.
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By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.
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A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
