Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile at those who are not so close to us. Let us never forget: love begins at home.
Quotes to Explore
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.
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Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.
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Family is everything to me. Family and health are the two most important things to me.
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I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.
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Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile at those who are not so close to us. Let us never forget: love begins at home.
