Marilyn Ferguson Quotes
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.
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Don’t you get an empty feeling in your soul when you have a blank to-do list?
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Normally, the market peaks before bad news emerges. That's what happened in 1929, and that's what happened in 2000.
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To have knowledge of Judaism and to be a religious Jew or an interested Jew, is to have a doorway into a worldview that is entirely alien to the rest of the world's worldview.
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It's not enough to tackle just the symptoms of poverty. You have to tackle the causes of poverty.
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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
