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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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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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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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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No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.
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I love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.
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My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.
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Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.
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When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.
