Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you.
Quotes to Explore
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.
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I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.
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You can only do so much theatre.
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Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.
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In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.
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Love and despair go hand in hand.
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Some people are really proud of me, and some don't like it. I don't really know what to tell those people. It's like people that don't know me or people that aren't even my friends saying I've changed. I have two friends - exactly two friends. It's like, how can someone that's not even my friend say I've changed?
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If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked.
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I grew up in L.A., and it's one of those cities designed around cars instead of the people that live there. I spent hours every day stuck in traffic, having the experience of looking around and seeing one person in every car.
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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
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Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you.
