Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.
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As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
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I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
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I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.
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I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.
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The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
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I don't think anyone gets married thinking that they will get divorced.
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Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.
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'In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell for all eternity...it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong ...I didn’t cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and is best kept close to your heart.'
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Balance your thoughts with action. - If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
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Remember that nearly all extraordinary accomplishments began by overcoming a series of challenges that discourage and tempt us to quit, before we succeed. Those that maintain faith, stay committed, follow through and keep moving forward are the few that achieve everything they want in life. Be one of the few.
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We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
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Financial independence means the freedom to choose.
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We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich
