Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That's the secret to a great schnitzel.
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I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
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People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
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My kitchen in New York City is in the Richard Meier building on Perry Street, so it's ultra-modern: white, glass and transparent. It's 180 square feet, with an induction stove. Everything's hidden, so you don't see the microwave or the fridge.
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For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
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It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
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There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue - there's so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk.
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I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so.
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It was just their food that began to stick in his throat. I love Chinese food, ... I could even pick up a little peanut with my chopsticks. But I grew up with American food for 24 years, so I got kind of sick of it.
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
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Honestly, I sleep best wearing nothing. But with kids, I've learned to sleep with underwear very close by, if not wrapped around one of my feet, so I'm ready to go if something happens.
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If I had to name my greatest value in life, it would be beauty.
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Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.
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Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.
