Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.
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People don't even understand that every bit of our food was once alive. We take another creature, plant, animal, microorganism, tear it apart in our mouths. And incorporate those molecules into our own bodies. We are the Earth in the most profound way.
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Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.
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Psychology and economics are Stalin's favorable winds. He is also the party 'boss.' But he is, in addition, the Soviet Union's most striking personality.
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If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.
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I think occasionally it's the presence - or increased presence - of federal law enforcement that can cause that fear.
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The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
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A lot of the companies that I am inclined to get involved in have a mission to fix something that is 'broken' in the world.
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I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.
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We're not trying to form a new religion. I think that all the powerful religions are pretty much the same. People like to pretend they are very different, but they are not. They are really about believing in something bigger than yourself, something that's unseen, and about having some faith. That's not such a bad thing to have in the world.
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There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.
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The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
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Guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.
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Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike.
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Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
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My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.
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In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you: underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet.
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Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
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Sometimes you get run down. sometimes life throws dirt in your eyes and it stings and you can't see for a few minutes. even after you get it out your eyes are all red and your vision is shitty... but eventually, whether through tears or maybe just time... you start to see even clearer than before. life is not always good. which is why music exists. why i believe God exists. and why there's always a pint of coconut milk ice cream in my freezer.
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Ego is even worse than dirt and filth because it attacks others.
