Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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There's a limit to how much you can deploy renewables, like wind or solar. People will talk about getting up to 30 percent of America's power from renewables, but you can't get to 100 percent because of their unreliability.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
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The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
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I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.
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I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.
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Even when I read a book, if the book leaves me the possibility of finding certain solutions or working on my own toward a solution, I prefer that much more than if the book fills me with the answers, gives them to me directly.
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I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.
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Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.
