Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
Once you are absolutely thoughtlessly aware, you are one with the Divine, so much so that the Divine takes over every activity, every moment of your life and looks after you and you feel completely secured, one with the Divine and enjoy the blessings of the Divine.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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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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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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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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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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I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
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Once you are absolutely thoughtlessly aware, you are one with the Divine, so much so that the Divine takes over every activity, every moment of your life and looks after you and you feel completely secured, one with the Divine and enjoy the blessings of the Divine.
