Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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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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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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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.
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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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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
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Innocence is the source of love.
