Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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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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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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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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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
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I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
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If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.
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I know sometimes tragic or humiliating events propel you into a better life, I've experienced that for sure, but it still hurts. It still burns. I think sometimes it hurts more because you can't wish it had never happened. It improved your life in the long run.
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The light of the spirit has to come into your attention.
