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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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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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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Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.
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Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.
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I've got to tell you, I'm not really a tie man. I'll wear a tie if I have to: If I'm standing in the dock and it looks like I'm facing 20 years, then I'll definitely wear the tie!
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Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
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The only way one can really understand what we are is by knowing yourself.
