Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I'm convinced it makes all the difference in the world.
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Man knows much more than he understands.
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You can't value others until you value yourself.
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Being the everyman in the writing room helps a lot: you have to be a real collaborator and selfless, and not have ego when you walk in there. That's the antithesis of the artist mentality.
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I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion.
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I am not going to eat something that I have been told is not good for my system, and I do what I can to eat energy food, such as lean meats, whole grains, and lots of fruit and vegetables. Without this daily habit, my body would have given up a long time ago. There is no magic pill, no magic drink, no magic food.
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I love a good suit.
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I've been banking my holidays, which means I take time off later in the year. It makes it a lot easier to fit filming in; it can be quite challenging to study and film at the same time.
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I got to meet Colm Wilkinson once, and I was ecstatic.
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From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.
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To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.
