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've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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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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Life is the path you beat while you walk it.
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Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
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The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.
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My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep.
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Self Realization is the first encounter with reality.
