Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.
Quotes to Explore
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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I was a tomboy.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
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Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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One person's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common ground on religious freedom and LGBT issues in Utah - one of the nation's most religious and conservative states - we can do it anywhere in the country.
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I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.
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Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.
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He that first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defense against a knave, was but an ill teacher, advising us to commit wickedness to secure ourselves.
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Speak up, my boy. If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.
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Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're not in the upper middle class neighborhoods.
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'Portlandia' is the most fun show. When I get a breakdown of what the arc of the story is going to be, I could never in my wildest dreams anticipate the direction.
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I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.
