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 sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.
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Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it
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I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.
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I could never have imagined that, so early in my career, that I'd be ticking off boxes that I've dreamed about since I was a little girl.
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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.
