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 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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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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At the end of the day, we still make the things that we make. And we found that the best strategy in this very fluid marketplace is to not be tied into any given platform, but to be able to make good content, and good content will be able to live anywhere.
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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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In the past, I had a knee-jerk approach to work, and it showed on screen. I was doing movies for the wrong reasons - trying to juggle dates, do too many guest appearances, take up projects under pressure or for emotional reasons.
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I've long loved emerging markets airlines because they usually sell at bargain prices. The troubled history of developed market airlines unfairly taints these stocks. In the emerging world, they're growth stocks.
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It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence.
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Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.
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A person who is innocent is extremely humble.
