Bikram Choudhury Quotes
Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.
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Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.
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I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
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I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
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America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.
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This is going to sound really weird, but I never had a desire to be famous. I never had huge ambitions - never.
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…I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon.
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We now know too much about matter to be materialists. The very essence of the physical order of things is that it creates nothing new. Change is never more than a redistribution of that which never changes. But sensibility belongs to the world of consciousness, not to the world of matter.
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Colored men of Tennessee, humble and unworthy as I am, if no better shall be found I will indeed be your Moses and lead you through the Red Sea of war and bondage to a fairer future of liberty and peace. I speak now as one who feels the world his country and all who love equal rights his friends.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Fire is the most tolerable third party.
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However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.
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The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.
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What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
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Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.
