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Mother Teresa



Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.


If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.


If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.


Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.


Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.





Simon Collow



Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.


He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.


He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.


I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.




Chuck Norris



A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.


Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.


People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.


Violence is my last option.




Jessica Alba



Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.


My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.


There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior.




Audrey Hepburn


As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others



Everything I learned I learned from the movies.


For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.


I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.


I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.




Marilyn Monroe


Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.


Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.


Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.


I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.


I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.




Jim Carrey


A lot of good love can happen in ten years.


Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.


Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.


Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.


I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.


I love playing ego and insecurity combined.




Aretha Franklin


Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.


I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.


If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.


My faith always has been and always will be important to me.




Leonardo Da Vinci


As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.


Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.


For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.


Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.


He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.


I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.


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