Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love in action is service. In order for us to be able to love, we have to see and touch. Faith in action through prayer, faith in action through service: each is the same thing, the same love, the same compassion.
Quotes to Explore
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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I used to hate stilettos. It took me a lot of time to understand how to walk in them and look graceful. And eventually, you realise their importance.
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I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?
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Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
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One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.
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I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.'
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Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.
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For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.
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I am going to keep on singing. I have no intention of retiring. Actually, I always wonder whether people know my songs in the different countries I visit. I feel nervous over whether they will sing along with me or not.
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We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
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Postquam leges bello siluere coactaepellimur e patriis laribus patimurque volentesexilium.
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In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love in action is service. In order for us to be able to love, we have to see and touch. Faith in action through prayer, faith in action through service: each is the same thing, the same love, the same compassion.
