Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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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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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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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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Don't take advice from single people. No shade to everybody in here that's single, but I say that from one point, being the single girl that just knew it all. In the long run, I had to learn. I had to be able to give that chance.
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I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam.
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And then I felt sick for believing in spite of myself. You get invested in things—love affairs, politics, con games—and you tie yourself in knots trying to make reality match up to what would make you happiest. The mad part is, what would make you happiest is to get your cope on for what is, rather than what you would rather have happen.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
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If love is killed, joy is lost. You cannot have joy without love.
