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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History” has very little to say about this war other than to recall the greatest battle ever fought between Arabs and Persians on the plains of Qadisiyyah in southern Iraq (A.D. 636). This event produces intensely emotive imagery in Iraq where the war was officially called Qadisiyyat Saddam. The irony is, however, that the battle of Qadisiyya only succeeded in overthrowing the Sassanian empire because of how rotted through it had become, and historians are agreed that the Arabs won because Iranians abandoned their army in droves to join the Islamic advance. Moreover, Iraq was inside the Sassanian empire at the time (the ruins of its capital, Ctesiphon, are in the geographical center of modern Iraq). So this kind of history is made up of a heap of ironies and is not the “cause” of anything; it merely confirms, albeit negatively, how “modern” Iraqis and Iranians have become.
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Miss Fairfield had a gift for taking a beautiful concept and then marring it beyond all recognition.
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
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I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.'
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The light of the spirit has to come into your attention.
