Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I was a tomboy.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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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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I can be very ordinary looking.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
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Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
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I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
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When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
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The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had; it's a fresh start.
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How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
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One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.
