Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I never left doo wop.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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I don't read books.
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Eating-wise, I'm fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you're not eating correctly, you're not giving your body the fuel it needs. So, I stay away from carbs after the morning, and I eat a lot of protein - fish, chicken, and no red meat.
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I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
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I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.
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I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.
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The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.
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Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.
