Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
First of all, learn to laugh at yourself. That's the best way to enjoy yourself, you know, and not to spend much time in the mirror, that's another way.
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I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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I think part of the reason Trump behaves the way he behaves is that he is a walking example of projection. Whatever he's doing and whatever he thinks is happening he will accuse somebody else of. And there are examples during the campaign when he did just that, like when he called publicly on Russia to hack my personal emails. He knew they were trying to do whatever they could to discredit me with emails, so there's obviously a trail there, but I don't know that in our system we have any means of doing that.
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Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
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First of all, learn to laugh at yourself. That's the best way to enjoy yourself, you know, and not to spend much time in the mirror, that's another way.
