Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.
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I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe and couldn't find any.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.
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I'd love to do something at Marvel, but I don't think I would do a seven-movie deal. That's a bit too much for me.
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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That night we visited various places where well-shaped and scented, though completely naked, Japanese girls came to sit on male knees.
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The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler.
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
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There's more than one way to sense violence.
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How can we tell our children that - when we have ourselves so often cried out in bitter despair at what we regarded to be the injustice of life - and when we have so often surrendered?
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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
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Just as God's love to us believers, his children, is unalterably the same, whatever may be the manifestations of that love; and as his peace with us is the same, however much our peace may be disturbed; so it is also with regard to our being in fellowship or partnership with him: it remains unalterably the same so far as God is concerned.
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God is never late, but rarely early.
