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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Children ask questions much more than adults do, and you have to wonder if this is something we have that we lose.
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Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.
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The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.
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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.
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The world as it is perceived by most people, is a world of finite resources.
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The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
