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.

  

  Irwin Winkler
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• Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

  

  Waylon Jennings
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• I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

  

  Barbara Bush
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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.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
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• People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.

  

  Pamela Hanson
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• This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.

  

  H. L. Hunt
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• I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

  

  Malcolm X
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• I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
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• I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Writing
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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.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
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• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
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• Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
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• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
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  • Reached
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• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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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.

  

  Katha Pollitt
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• New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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• Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• During meditation, if we can concentrate all our attention on one point, and put all problems in front of it, then they can be solved immediately. Our power is great, but we never use it. If we do not use our power by concentrating on it, then it seems we do not have any power at all.

  

  Ching Hai
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• The words of the Constitution … are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
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• Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.

  

  Norman Lamm
  • Wanting
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  • Dogmas

• You should be able to use your intellect and not to be dominated by your intellect.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
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