Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.
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I made the decision to end business relationships with the Trump Organization simply because it was the right thing to do. No one approached me, asked me or pressured me to take this action.
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Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond writers - among blacks, there is always one person who everyone should go to learn about all things black.
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Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.
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People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.
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Benevolence means whatever is good for your Spirit.
