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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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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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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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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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 think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
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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 like what I've seen. He's a very quiet, respectful kid but when he plays, he plays hard.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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Benevolence means whatever is good for your Spirit.
