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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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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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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Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
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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 think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
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The beauty of impulse eating may be that you end up eating less—when you do eat—than someone who has been thinking about the food for hours. The more you think of something, the more of it you’ll eat.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.
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You should be able to use your intellect and not to be dominated by your intellect.
