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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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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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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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
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It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.
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I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.
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Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
