Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
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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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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret. For it wasn’t the secret—the secret that wasn’t a secret anyway—that led to the austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.
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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.
