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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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.
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When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.
