Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
We are on this earth to become the Spirit, to be a channel of God's love and above all, to enter into the Kingdom of God.
Quotes to Explore
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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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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
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Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
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I'm no intellect. I'm no preacher. I'm an entertainer. And If I don't get up there and entertain people, I'm not giving them what they paid for.
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
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I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
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My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.
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Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
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The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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People have the right to love who they love and nobody should have anything to say about it!
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Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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We are on this earth to become the Spirit, to be a channel of God's love and above all, to enter into the Kingdom of God.
