Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.
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You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.
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Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilization.
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Matter can never give you joy. It's the Spirit that gives you joy.
