Marilyn Ferguson Quotes
People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
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I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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One of the things that drives me crazy as a professional woman is you'll have bought a suit, and you get home and realize you don't have a shirt to wear with it.
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If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.
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There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having things written down, too.
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One of the things I had to really work on is, when you're the leader of an organization, people look at the expression on your face. Your mood has a lot to do with how people think the whole organization is doing.
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People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.
