Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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My dad brought 'Clerks' to Sundance 22 years ago, and that's when his career started.
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
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You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'
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Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
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People always assume if you're vegetarian you can just live on cheese and meanwhile cheese is awful for your body even if tastes so good. I'm a massive animal lover too. Being vegan has been so good for me. I've never felt better.
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The tantra masters are simply wild flowers, they have everything in them.
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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
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We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.
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Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to love for goodness sake. Hear the music of Love Eternal Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.
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The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
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In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.
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Our culture has changed. It has become more violent. People are literally afraid to go to the movies or to school.
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Versace has always been a brand that I've loved, a brand that has supported me. I've been wearing Versace for so long, I come in here and I have friends here, and they really support what it is that I do. Our partnership has been great.
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I didn't exercise. I worked all the time, went home and went to bed.
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I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.
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It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering, "Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that." Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.
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The Lord has told me that the last generation before His final coming will consist of His choicest children since the creation of the earth. But you will face a world filled with much pain and evil. Men...will gain great power over God's children. Youth such as yourselves will have a great responsibility to build up a pure and undefiled people in the midst of all this pain.
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The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.
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I can handle ups and downs.
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You can't do God's work without suffering.
