Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
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Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.
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Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
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My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
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I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
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All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.
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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
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You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense or in principle, but I should never be tempted to do it; for I could not like him, if he were ever so handsome, and ever so charming, in other respects; I should hate him – despise him – pity him – anything but love him. My affections not only ought to be founded on approbation, but they will and must be so: for, without approving, I cannot love. It is needless to say, I ought to be able to respect and honour the man I marry, as well as love him, for I cannot love him without.
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The only way one can really understand what we are is by knowing yourself.
