Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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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 just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.
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In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
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If love is killed, joy is lost. You cannot have joy without love.
