Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight.
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.
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I've been online since 1989; I was sysop on several CompuServe forums.
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My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.
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I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.
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Cities and towns throughout central and northwest Connecticut have strong industrial histories and are now in the process of transitioning into new sources of economic growth. I'm doing what I can to be a strong partner in these efforts.
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This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used to the strange perspectives open at each moment of our lives" - something like that.
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The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.
