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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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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A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.
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Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them homes-away-from-home. But there can be dark corners in familiar places.
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I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
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People are branded as either 'fat' or 'skinny' from an early age. You sort of never shake it, even if you end up losing weight.
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In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.
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You have to take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity.
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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.
