Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.
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I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.
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I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.
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For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.
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One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
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There is too much negativity on Twitter, and I want to stay from it. I don't have anything intelligent to say. Whatever I want to say, I will say it through my movies and interviews.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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In a political situation where tyranny reigns and rebellion is not tolerated, few men and women will have the luxury of going beyond the stance of the rebel.
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People misunderstand what a police state is. It isn't a country where the police strut around in jackboots; it's a country where the police can do anything they like. Similarly, a security state is one in which the security establishment can do anything it likes.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.
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We cannot really know God if we do not pray.
