Marilyn French Quotes
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
Quotes to Explore
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.
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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
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I believe it's a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.
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Sometimes when God brings things into an individual's life, it makes them totally depend on Him.
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We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
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Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
