Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
You should be able to use your intellect and not to be dominated by your intellect.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.
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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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I've never had a very great public life.
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I remember watching Audrey Hepburn dancing in movies, and I was inspired by how graceful she looked, though I understand it was no easy task.
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Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.
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Love gives without taking.
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Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.
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When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.
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When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.
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You should be able to use your intellect and not to be dominated by your intellect.
