Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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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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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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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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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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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 could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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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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I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.
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President Bush is an intelligent man. He is not going to declare an economic war against Iraq . [...] I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait .
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It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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If love is killed, joy is lost. You cannot have joy without love.
