Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!

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• I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.

  

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• When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

  

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• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

  

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• Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.

  

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• There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.

  

  Ira Glass
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• I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.

  

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• The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

  

  Damien Rice
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• If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.

  

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• In nature there are few sharp lines.

  

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• If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

  

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• When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.

  

  Naomie Harris
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• It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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• I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me. So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.

  

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• Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

  

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• I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?

  

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• Cleland was the victim of his own downfall.

  

  Alan Parry
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• I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

  

  Navi Rawat
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• You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
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• I was a big aviation buff as a boy.

  

  Brian Binnie
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• Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!

  

  Mother Teresa
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