Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.
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I like the wrestling and executing the throws. My dad was a wrestler and he showed me some of those techniques, too.
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True love, to me, is when she's the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.
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I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.
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There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.
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I just loved being around everybody. We just found a rhythm with each other that you want to get on everything you ever do in your life.
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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
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The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.
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Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don't force into adulthood.
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I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
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Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."
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Everybody has down times and stuff that they have to work through. I worked through that stuff because I've always wanted to be playing soccer.
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Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.
