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Marianne Wiggins Quotes

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

Marianne Wiggins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: September 8, 1947

Topics

History Myself World Place Want

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.

Change Government Society Rise Up

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

Spiritual I Am People Me Know See

Good things will come from self-expression.

Good Good Things Will Things Come

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Robert M. Hutchins

Education Think Teach Minds Possible

I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.

Experience Me Book Story Think Will

The haters and the trolls have always used me as an excuse to make fun of something that is out of the ordinary, something that doesn't necessarily make sense to them. For whatever reason, I have always been a target that people love to attack.

Love Fun People Me Haters Target

'She's Gotta Have It' and 'School Daze,' I really didn't know what I was doing. And the biggest indicator of that was the acting. 'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.

Do The Right Thing School Doing Know

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Stokely Carmichael

Knowledge Now Then Had

When you go in to get your car serviced, they plug it in and tell you everything that happened for the last six months. I walk in and get a stress test from my doctor, and they make a conclusion based off of that. That doesn't make sense to me. I would much prefer to have all of the data about myself and less about my car.

Steve Mollenkopf

Car Myself Walk Stress Me Doctor

You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'

Live You Want Safe Only Your

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

Mind Me Writing Thinking Slow Down

I looked at the race, and I said, 'Look. Hillary Clinton is going to be hard to beat.' Another bad prediction on my part, because she's turned out a lot weaker than I thought.

Thought Look Bad Said Race She

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