Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.
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I always wanted to be a mom.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.
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I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.
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If you get rid of all these giveaways and loopholes and deductions and credits, then you can sharply lower the rates.
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I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
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Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.
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I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
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I assure you that interest in Japanese culture in Russia is just as strong as interest in Russian culture in Japan.
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Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual life. What is important is how our spiritual sensitivity is applied to our relative environment.
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'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.
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Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.
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To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
