Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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Talent is very hot.
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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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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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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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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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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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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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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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I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God - a union of two totally different kinds of beings.
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Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantly, the predictive success of Newtonian theory, emphasizing the primacy of a physical Universe, made the existence of spirit and God an extraneous hypothesis that offered no explanatory principles needed by science.
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To me, my business is my life.
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On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
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We cannot really know God if we do not pray.
