Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
If you have love, you can correct people without saying anything to them because love is a supreme intelligence.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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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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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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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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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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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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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
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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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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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I'm a visual thinker, so I think of everything visually, first. A lot of what an issue will become for me starts with me thinking, "What's a great cover?," or "What's the splash image?," or "What is the title of the issue? How do I see the text?" I think about all of that stuff, and then the story comes out of that imagery.
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We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.
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If you have love, you can correct people without saying anything to them because love is a supreme intelligence.
