Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.
Quotes to Explore
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.
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I hate seaweed.
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To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.
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An injured lion still wants to roar.
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Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
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The Bush Doctrine is democratic imperialism. This will bleed, bankrupt and isolate this republic. This overthrows the wisdom of the Founding Fathers about what America should be all about.
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Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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The survivors lay quietly in that cratered void and watched the whitehot stars go rifling down the dark. Or slept with their alien hearts beating in the sand like pilgrims exhausted upon the face of the planet Anareta, clutched to a namelessness wheeling in the night.
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I wanted the opportunity to play for Tom Osborne. Here we are in the locker room at half-time, gathering around Coach Osborne. It grows quiet, and I'll never forget what he said. He said, 'Let's get this over with.'
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What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.
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The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.
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I hate the word 'cool.' It gives me a rash.
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I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it's the way we're wired. We have always needed to distill what we're going through and try to understand it by looking either backwards or forwards. And the hardest is to look in the now.
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God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.
