Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. In your central nervous system and in your conscious mind, you must feel the existence of the spirit.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.
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I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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I think that the first film I saw in the theater was 'The AristoCats.' I was like, 'Oh my God, this is brilliant!' That's when I knew I wanted to work in cinema. I was four or five.
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I think there are moral obligations, and I think there are economic transactions. So I think that chores are good; I think that allowances are good. I think combining them is bad.
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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
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I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.
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I think the most important cause for me is to try to represent honesty. I'm not saying I'm perfect, but it's about trying to be true to who you are.
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People spend money when and where they feel good.
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Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.
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People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]
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If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race.
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He's really annoying defensively. He's a little bug, a little jitterbug. He's got those quick feet, moving around. He gets into you, and he's strong. When he's defending you, you've got to be on top of your game or else he'll rip it or get a stop.
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I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
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Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. In your central nervous system and in your conscious mind, you must feel the existence of the spirit.
