Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
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I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'
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An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.
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A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.
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The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I'm having none of that.
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'In a dojo... you will never become any good unless you believe in yourself.'
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I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.
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A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
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I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
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When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.
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It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
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One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
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It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.
