Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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I think Kareena Kapoor is gorgeous. She is effortless. I have never seen her go overboard with her make-up or the way she dresses. Even off-screen or when travelling, she looks gorgeous.
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She was very kind to us when Joe and I went through the darkest days of the leak of my name in 2003. And, of course, Joe worked in the Clinton White House.
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When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.
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This is an issue couples have to be straight on and agree on before they walk down that aisle; otherwise there is no way their marriage will survive.
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'That makes no sense,' I said.'This is the Victorian era,' she said. 'Women didn’t have to make sense.'
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It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.
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I like to have cookies in the morning before I go swimming.
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I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.
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Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.
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My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
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Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.
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I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.
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If we want to transform reality, we begin with ourselves. We do not ask the world to change, and we do not fight against society. It has to be us ourselves who affirm our own values.
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The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.
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As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.
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She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it
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I hated being in a convent. It's another form of power. Manipulation. Because who can say - one God for the whole universe? I think there must be millions of gods! And they're not all of them very nice.
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If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.
