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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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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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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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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Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
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Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.
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I'm an independent thinker and independent leader. I have been my whole life.
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Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
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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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It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
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I don't want to sing boring pop songs – I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.
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I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.
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The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.
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All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.
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If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.
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Let's distinguish between freedom and equality. The modern American woman may be more liberated sexually than her mother was, but I don't think she enjoys a bit more sexual equality. The American male continues to use her sexually for one thing: a means to the end of his own ejaculation.
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You should be able to use your intellect and not to be dominated by your intellect.
