Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.
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Accept loss forever.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
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My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.
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I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.
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If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
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If people ever stop making films about India, I'd never work again.
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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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It was only in university I was told that I was dyslexic. It kind of gave me the confidence to be able to pursue academia in the way that I always thought I could. I guess that was a bit of battle and just my own kind of negative thoughts about what I can achieve.
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It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.
