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.
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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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In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.
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The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?
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It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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I think a lot of my anxieties and fears are things that are very abstract.
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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.
