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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Every man has a long list of things that should be done, but which he knows can't be done. Yet he continues to talk about them as long as he lives.
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Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.
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I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.
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Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
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Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
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All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.
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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.
