Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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I believe in doing what I am best at.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
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I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
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What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.
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I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
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I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.
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The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.
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I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.
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Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
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I come from a poor family.
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To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
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Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.
