Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts . . . No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve . . . If we love, we begin to serve
Quotes to Explore
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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Everything belongs to me because I am poor.
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I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.
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I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.
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Theater is definitely something that, through the course of my childhood and even in college, I enjoyed participating in. I would love to do theater, or as far as movies or television goes, if the right thing came along I would definitely entertain it.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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You know how there's always the one girl in drama school who can cry at the drop of a hat? She has that emotional well she can tap into in a second? I'm not that girl. It takes a lot to get me to that place.
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No one should have to live in fear.
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They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
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I love him (Josh Homme) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much ... unless you're family.
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When you get that signing bonus, don't start thinking about all the things you can do with $1 million.
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Are there women in your world now that have given you those lessons in confidence? Oh absolutely. Meryl [Streep] does it all the time. I think she does it in a way that she doesn't even understand or think she's doing it.
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When you're portraying a tough situation, you have to show some of the things in there.
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If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts . . . No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve . . . If we love, we begin to serve
