Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
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Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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The movies were custard compared to politics.
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I don't need a job. I don't want an appointment. I don't want to be on a commission. I don't want to be ambassador to nowhere.
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I will never say never, but I can tell you right now - I am perfectly happy with being who I am. I just - I really - I'm an entertainer, and the thing that I'd decided to work on was my career, and I decided the energy that I was putting in certain relationships - I was really kind of wasting my time, and I knew it.
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What I try with my own stuff is to work the poem to a slow climax through a series of quiet painful dissonances.
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It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.
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'Aye Zindagi' is a show which is about stories inspired by real-life incidents. You might be able to relate to these stories, as it can be about anyone around you.
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Work without love is slavery.
