Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.
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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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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.
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Rooms in one of those spacious old houses with the large windows facing the sun, and plenty of books—if I were that abstracted but happy form of reptile called a bookworm, which I believed I am prevented from being only by my sex, the genus, I am told, being persistently male, I would take care to spend at least one of my life’s winters in Putbus. How divinely quiet it would be. What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.
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As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
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Only your ascent is important. Once you ascend, everything is saved
