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 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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We want to see Thailand emerge as a bastion of freedom and democracy, not as a ... partner with the Burmese dictatorship. Friends don't let friends enable dictatorship.
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One thing I love about the beauty industry is that there are so many entrepreneurs, so much creativity, such a fun pipeline of products.
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I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
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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.
