Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
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If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.
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In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
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With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.
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Well, I think that you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective. Answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade. But let me just speak more generally about the issue of abortion, because this is something that obviously the country wrestles with.
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Helping women achieve higher pay is a core goal of this book.
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Clarke's Second Law: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
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We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.
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It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life.
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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.
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It's hard to argue with a coach who says, 'I just want you to work.' What can you say to that without making a fool of yourself?
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One of the things I like to do during an 'overhaul' revision is bust out my highlighters and colored pens. Tools like these make me feel like a real writer.
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I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker.
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The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.
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Retarded kids are the best. When they ask for an autograph I just fake sign a picture and tell them that it's in invisible ink and it will show up later. They totally buy it. It saves me a fortune in markers.
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We spoke about a number of things from conventional swing to reverse swing and different lines and lengths.
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Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.
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The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
