Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?'
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I never started collecting figures or anything like that because I'm slightly completist with things, so if I start down a path, I'm worried where it'll end up - i.e. With a wall of something!
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.
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He has not lived in vain who learns to be unruffled by loss, by gain, by, joy, by pain.
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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
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I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.
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A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.
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When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time.
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When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.
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I'm still too hungry for whatever comes next.
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'Under the Poppy' is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who've been parted by jealousy - and a secret betrayal by Istvan's sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar.
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The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
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I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.
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I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.
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The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.
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And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.
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I am a humble person.
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A person who is innocent is extremely humble.
