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'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
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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'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise.
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Matter can never give you joy. It's the Spirit that gives you joy.
