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• Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you were meant to be!

  Denis Waitley

  Simple, Yield, Common Sense

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• I prefer big Oprah. I know Oprah wants to be skinny Oprah, but her head is too gigantic to fit on a skinny body. She has to accept that, like Kirstie Alley, she was meant to be... ahm... voluptuous!

  Kathy Griffin

  Body, Want, Skinny

  "Kathy Griffin: Balls of Steel". Documentary, Comedy, 2009.

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• I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of "go out and fulfill your dreams" and "be everything you were meant to be." But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren.

  Erma Bombeck

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

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• I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

  S. E. Hinton

  Writing, Thinking, Outsiders

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• Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret Voltaire", that with it came a certain responsibility. It wasn't meant to be purely entertainment; it was meant to be something a little bit more serious - and to provoke people - wrapped within an outer wrapping of entertainment.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Responsibility, Names, People

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• I'm a huge fan of horror. I can't handle all the blood and gore, but that's what The Following was meant to be. It was meant to be a genre show, a little movie, a little scary genre film every week. That was our goal. That's what Kevin Bacon and I wanted to do.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Blood, Goal, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else.

  Suzy Kassem

  People, Lessons, Busy

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• Become the person you were meant to be, light your inner fire and follow your heart's desire.

  Leon Brown

  Heart, Light, Fire

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• Shannon and all of us started the band so it just felt really natural, and then she quit, and then she came back, and then she quit again. I love working with her and would do it again, but that's just not in the cards. And Josh is a great person to play with - he can play any instrument. He's really inspiring and positive. It was great. It was meant to be temporary.

  Theresa Wayman

  Play, Cards, Band

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• The Bible was meant to be read by those in love. It's sad when it's not.

  Bill Johnson

  Meant To Be

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• My heart lives in so many places. With so many people. But God whispers to me that I really have only one home, and that is with Him. I will never be content on this earth. I will always be a nomad. It was meant to be that way. My heart was created with a desire for a home, a nest, a sanctuary, and that can be found only with Him in Heaven.

  Katie Davis

  Heart, Home, People

  Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

  Elizabeth George

  Age, Seven, Meant To Be

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• I can't imagine being quite as lucky at any other time - I certainly never have been before. That goes right down from my producing partners to people like Eddie Vedder. But the two things that make me feel that this was meant to be now and not before was that the story itself has more resonance today - I find it a more important story today than it was then - and Emile.

  Sean Penn

  Two, People, Important

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Cuddling, Want

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Mother, Thinking, Actresses

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Mirrors, Portraits

  Source: screenrant.com

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• We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because we were meant to be an endless experiment in freedom, with no limits to our reaches, no boundaries to what we can do, no end point to our hopes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Years, America, Judging

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map that-when properly read and followed-reconn ects us to the life we were meant to live, the people we were meant to be, and the contributions we were meant to give.

  Debbie Ford

  People, Giving, Shadow

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• There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

  Jay-Z

  Together, Three, Becoming

  Interview with Oprah, www.oprah.com. October 2009.

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• Say goodbye to a world where you cannot breathe/ To hiding behind unfamiliar skin/ To singing songs never knowing what they mean/ Now this is the way it was meant to be/ Be still and listen to the rising and falling/ Knowledge is power and I never knew me till now.

  Michelle Malone

  Goodbye, Song, Fall

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• Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we forget that we ever had genius and special talents, and our brilliance is locked away in a vault deep within. So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be.

  Simon T. Bailey

  People, Special, Genius

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• No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.

  T. S. Eliot

  Two, Progress, Lord

  'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' (1917)

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• Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Book, Effectiveness, Broken

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Love, God, Flames

  FULTON J. SHEEN (1957). “LOVE, MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN”

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• ... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.

  James Madison

  Military, Government, President

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