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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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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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
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Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.
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The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
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Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
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We are whirling through endless space with an inconceivable speed, all around us everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere is energy. There mart be some way of availing ourselves of this energy more directly. Then; with the light obtained from the medium, with the power derived from it, with every form of energy obtained without effort, from the store forever inexhaustible, humanity will advance with giant strides. The mere contemplation of these magnificent possibilities expand our minds, strengthens our hopes and and fills our hearts with supreme delight.
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You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.
