Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
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Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
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Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.
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My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?
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Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.
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The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
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I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
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Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.
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There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
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My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.
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Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son's bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don't feel like I'm depressed anymore. There's nothing to be depressed about when you've got that.
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Forgive the person who has caused the most pain in your life and it will make you feel better.
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How do children learn to correct their mistakes? By watching how you correct yours. How do children learn to overcome their failures? By watching how you overcome yours. How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness? By watching you forgive yourself.
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The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.
