Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.
Quotes to Explore
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
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My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.
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After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.
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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
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The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.
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I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
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Reaching beyond where you are is really important.
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We discussed music and singing every time our paths crossed out here.
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We've been given this great gift, this huge canvas of these beautiful books by George Martin, and the idea of telling this whole epic through to the end is incredibly compelling.
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Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.
