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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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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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 feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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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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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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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 am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
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Too much me is annoying under any circumstance, but too much me in an essay, however personal, would mar the art. My "character" in the essay is more like a perspective, an angle of vision, a complicating factor, a questioning presence. I don't sit on the sidelines or pretend to objectivity; and I'm not afraid to stick my neck out or to be revealing and vulnerable.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.
