Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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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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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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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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What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
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Yeah, come on and let the good times roll. We're gonna stay here till we soothe our souls. If it take all night long.
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When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
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You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.
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A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions.
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The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.
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It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.
