Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
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I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.
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Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?
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I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
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With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
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There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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Unidentified Congressman: Will the gentleman yield? Norton: I will not yield, sir! The District of Columbia has spent two hundred and six years yielding!
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real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.
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There are so many women out there who are single moms, really not by choice, and doing it and making it work every day. I think it's becoming much more a part of our culture and I hope that it will become more accepted and that those women are going to be more and more appreciated, respected and supported.
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When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.
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Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
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My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.
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We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.
