Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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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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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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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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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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Matter can never give you joy. It's the Spirit that gives you joy.
