Marilyn Ferguson Quotes
The ferment and viability in any society is directly proportionate to the number of people actively living their ideas. This is not positive thinking - it is positive action: the spirit of experiment.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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When I go into 'You're the Worst,' I'm very glammed up, and my hair and makeup is va-va-voom. Now what I'm having fun with in 'Grease' is, honestly, I go to rehearsals with zero makeup. When I get pimples, I get excited about it, like 'Yay! It helps the character!' The frumpier and uglier and grosser, the better with Jan.
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People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.
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For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.
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The ferment and viability in any society is directly proportionate to the number of people actively living their ideas. This is not positive thinking - it is positive action: the spirit of experiment.
