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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Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better - to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate.
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There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.
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That now-archaic word “likely,” ubiquitous in slave sale advertisements, had a cluster of converging meanings: vigorous, strong, capable, good-looking, attractive, promising—in other words, likely to reproduce.
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While the requirements of a good leader and a good man are similar, the requirements of a good leader and a good woman are mutually exclusive. A good leader must be tough, but a good woman must not be. A good woman must be self-deprecating, but a good leader must not be.
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In a city the multiplicity of threads forced a whirling confusion on the loom but here the simple pattern and the slow weaving made purpose more discernible.
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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.
