Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.
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I'm a travel enthusiast.
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I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.
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You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
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She's not a legend. She's a beginner. What is this 'legend'? She can't be a legend at whatever age she is. She can't be a legend, you have to be older.
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Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.
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The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much.
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Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.
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I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.
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How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity.
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A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.
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Self Realization is the first encounter with reality.
