Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.
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It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
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Life is hard, and then you die.
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When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.
