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 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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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 had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.
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I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!
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Growing up in a house where there was a lot of different musical influences - my mom listens to soul stuff and Top 40, my sisters would listen to hip-hop - and the church, I grew up listening to a lot of gospel stuff. So I think that plays a role in how I make music now because my music has a lot of range. I don't just do one thing.
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Anything with 'Family Guy' is great.
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Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.
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When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.
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From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its source. It was my foster mother, a half-Indian, half-German woman, who taught me to read, though she herself was barely literate. I remember her reading to me every day from 'True Romance' magazine.
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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.
