Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.
Quotes to Explore
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I was a tomboy.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
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I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.
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It's not very often that you get to come up with ideas and bring your take on the character and then actually have writers, producers, and directors pay attention to it.
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I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.
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I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the body's help and service, is better disposed for the service and praise of our Creator and Lord.
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I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.
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While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick - girls with huge butts and nice curves.
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I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility.
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Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.
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Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many of them, but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blazing blue of the other flowers, it had a bloom and elegance which made it a thing of the greatest delight.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Most of the men that sue in Hollywood are all about 5' 2'. They wake up every day, know they're tiny and feel very angry about it, so they go out and sue people.
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To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.
