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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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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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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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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I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six novels are continuous and contain the same set of characters. They are based on Manning's experiences in Eastern Europe and Egypt during the Second World War. Each novel is a wonderful picture of the peculiar British expatriate culture and what was happening during the war. She's one of those brilliant women who write very well about domestic relationships. All the books are slim, and it's easy to gallop through them.
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Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.
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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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What good are friends if they cant do you any good?
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What do we have to achieve? Not your position, not your wealth, not all these outward things, but you have to achieve a loving heart.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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Ego is even worse than dirt and filth because it attacks others.
