Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
We never had any problem from them. Jyoti Basu has been very kind to us. He was the one who told me "Mother, please do something for these (jail) girls. He has been helpful and always accessible to us over phone. We also never had any problem whenever we wanted to meet him.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
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I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.
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I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.
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I don't think anyone has ever been corrupted by a T-shirt.
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Josh is loving and kind, and he knows me better than anyone. He knows the real me, and he likes me for who I am. Josh is...Josh. And now he's gone. I press my wet face into my pillow. This is what heartbreak feels like.
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When you take the problems of the world on your shoulders, your body doesn't feel good. It's just that simple. Leave the problems of the world to the individual problem-makers of the world, and you be the joy-seeker that you are.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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Don't be concerned who is watching you. The triumphs and merits of others belong to them - as do yours to you. Make the most of what you've got.
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We never had any problem from them. Jyoti Basu has been very kind to us. He was the one who told me "Mother, please do something for these (jail) girls. He has been helpful and always accessible to us over phone. We also never had any problem whenever we wanted to meet him.
