Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
Sam Harris -
I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
Damian Lewis -
That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
Harold Pinter -
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
Rabindranath Maharaj -
All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
Walter Payton
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
Madison Smartt Bell -
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.
Venerable Bede -
It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
Wen Jiabao -
We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
Vijay Kumar
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
Fernand Leger -
My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
Yoko Ono -
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham -
My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
B. B. King -
The first thing I did as a child was draw. I wanted to make animated movies. I think Disney's 'Cinderella' was the first movie I ever saw. 'Peter Pan' was the first movie I ever saw in the movie theater. I grew up with 'Dumbo' and 'Pinocchio' and 'Sword in the Stone.' Those were the movies I wanted to make.
Damien Chazelle -
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
Karin Slaughter
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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
Karl A. Menninger -
From time to time, you will hear our opponents declare that the union is weak, that the union has no support, that the union has not grown fast enough. Our obituary has been written many times. How ironic it is that the same forces that argue so passionately that the union is not influential are the same forces that continue to fight us so hard.
Cesar Chavez -
I am a bisexual Cuban-American woman, and I am so proud of it.
Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony -
What I do want is to be transparent about where I am and how I got here. I don't like the cone of silence - it didn't do me any favors in my 20s or 30s, and I don't see it doing much for other women, either.
Rachel Sklar -
I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd -
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.
Mother Teresa