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'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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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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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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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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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.
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Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?
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Instead of gutting consumer protection, we should be expanding it.
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In an era of too much information, the need for discernment and wisdom will be greater than ever.
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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.
