Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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He who frames the question wins the debate.
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I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'
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The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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Each must the other take as sign, short sign To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.
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Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.
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I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
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Every time is a learning experience, and you pick up a little bit, and you learn things and try not to repeat them the next time.
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I do me, and me is my hits. I'm out there really to satisfy the people.
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Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.
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After Alvin we would be on board the other boat by now … Didn’t”
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What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!
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You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It's, uh... changed. It's now got, God help us, investment bankers and journalists, but it's still a very beautiful part of New York.
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What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.
