Prem Rawat Quotes
Note: In November 1970, when he made the following declaration, Maharaji was 12 years of age and had yet to leave India.
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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I have been in Wall Street all of my life. I love it. It has been good to me. I know many wonderful, decent, honorable, ethical, hard-working people that were in Wall Street with me.
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It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.
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I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.
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The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.
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Note: In November 1970, when he made the following declaration, Maharaji was 12 years of age and had yet to leave India.
