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Maria Shriver Biography

Maria Owings Shriver (/ˈʃraɪvər/; born November 6, 1955) is an American journalist, author, niece of 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy, former First Lady of California, and estranged wife of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. She has received a Peabody Award and was co-anchor for NBC's Emmy-winning coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics. As executive producer of The Alzheimer's Project, Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences award for developing a "television show with a conscience". She is a member of the Kennedy family; her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, was a sister of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy. Shriver is currently a special anchor and correspondent for NBC News.

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The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.

Accurate, Moments, Portraits, Report, Shriver, Transformational

you are the leader you've been looking for

Leader, Looking

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.

Definitions, Friend, Kind, Want, Woman

You know those goals you've set for yourself, those dreams you've been waiting for the perfect time to live out? It's time!

Dream, Dreams, Goal, Goals, Perfect, Time

No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.

Alzheimer'S, Parent, Disease, Expect, Dependent, Situation

I stand on the shoulders of women who marched before me.

Marched, Shoulders, Stand, Women

In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.

Age, Good, Investing, Make, Stupid

Someone once told me not to be afraid of being afraid, because, as she said, 'Anxiety is a glimpse of your own daring. ' Isn't that great? It means that part of your agitation is just excitement about what you're getting ready to accomplish. Don't sell yourself short by being so afraid of failure that you don't dare to make any mistakes. Make your mistakes and learn from them. And remember: No matter how many mistakes you make, your mother always loves you!

Excitement, Failure, Love You, Mistake, Mistakes, Mother

The most important thing we can tell young people is not to be an imitation of somebody else. That their life is special. They are the creator of their life and their way and find something that they enjoy doing that doesn't even feel like work. It feels like a passion. And then just by doing that and bringing that to the world, they become architects of change.

Feels, Life, Passion, People, Special

People think, 'Oh my goodness! I have to do something really big. ' You don't. Do what you love. There's a great quote from a poet I use all the time: 'Instead of asking what the world needs, ask yourself what you love,' because what the world needs is more people doing what they love.

Love, Needs, People, Thinking, Time, World

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

Believe, Gutter, Gutters, Politics

There are so many places, particularly right now. Go and volunteer at a food bank. If you play the piano, go play the piano in an Alzheimer's home. Or read in an Alzheimer's home. Help a military family with babysitting. The opportunities are endless. People often think 'They want me?' or 'I can be of help?' What we try to say here is 'Be who you are. 'Feel that, live it and pass it on.

Endless, Home, Military, People, Piano, Thinking

Motherhood: 24
7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it?

Enough, Frontlines, Humanity, Men, Motherhood

Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it.

Let, Life, Relationship, Use, Voice

I myself am still learning how to be me and that's OK. It can take a really long time to become the person you really want to be. Be who you are. It's the greatest gift we can give to ourselves, our community and our world.

Giving, Greatest, Long, Our World, Time

I've learned that asking ourselves not just what we want to be, but who we want to be is important at every stage of our lives, not just when we're starting out in the world. That's because in a way, we're starting out fresh in the world every single day.

Asking, Day, Important, Lives, Way, World

I lost myself in the process and I realized how much I had identified myself with Maria Shriver, newswoman. When that was gone, I had to really sit back and go, 'Well, actually, who am I today?

Gone, Lost, Process, Today

I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there.

Inspirational, Graduation, Bird, Mobile, Spend, Angry

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

Fear, Part, People, Special, Trying

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

Accomplishment, Empowering, Inspirational, Live, Lives, Obsess

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