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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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 Holy Ghost bears witness to us of the truth and impresses upon our souls the reality of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, so surely that no earthly power or authority can separate us from that knowledge.
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You talk through what exactly happened to Howard Dean on the campaign trail, what Bill Clinton must have lived through, what the daily grind of doing what these people have to do. And they can never lose their temper, they can never be tired, and they can never slip up, or it's on-camera, and it's everywhere - and it's over.
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The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.
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When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking it again, for the first few sentences you'll find yourself in very strange shape, because you're still the person who was speaking the first language. But if you keep speaking that language, you will become the person who corresponds to it.
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We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.
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Most inventions are based on some prior history.
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The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
