Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
Your own attention is important, not the attention of others or your attention on others.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Basically, I want that relationship where we have that love. I love her so much, and she loves me so much that it's just - you want that relationship where you look into the girl's eyes, and you know that she's everything you've ever wanted. When I find that, I'm going to get it!
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For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven't seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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I'm ready to be an action figure. I'd love that very much. And all the redheaded kids will get to go out and feel loved and be able to buy a redheaded action figure.
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No one is arguing that the entire Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. Section 2 is the most important part of the act. It gives people the right to challenge discriminatory laws in court. It applies to the entire nation. It is constitutional, and it will continue to protect all Americans.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you.
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I owe my mum a sense of family. She has kept our family together. I have two brothers and a sister, and they all live a stone's throw away from each other in Liverpool.
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Your own attention is important, not the attention of others or your attention on others.
