Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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Habits change into character.
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.
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Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
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You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One Direction. Everything is on there.
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There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
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My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.
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I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that’s not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.'
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A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.
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You don't launch a popular blog, you build one.
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It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.
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The re-interpretation and eventually sic eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely.
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My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
