Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.
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I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.
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Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
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If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.
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Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,Both the great vulgar and the small.
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He is energetic only in evading responsibility.
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I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
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Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?
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I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to follow the action with tenderness and interest, all passion spent. Rather than surrender to the story or the characters - as a good first reader ought - we can now look at how the book works, and instead of swooning over it like a besotted lover begin to appreciate its intricacy and craftmanship. Surprisingly, such dissection doesn't murder the experience. Just the opposite: Only then does a work of art fully live.
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What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.
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You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.
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When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.
