Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Quotes to Explore
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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.
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It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.
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I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
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Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.
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There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.
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Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
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When you come off 'The X Factor,' you're more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There's this kind of feeling that you're separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels.
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.
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Celebrity hits like a bomb.
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I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.
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I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.
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I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
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We can be, and should be, the masters of events, and not their playthings.
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Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
