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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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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…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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And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.
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When you are taught the right way to do something you are forced to forge your own path.
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Vampires are immortal, you can do whatever you want, and get away with it. And there's the seduction part of course, sex is a big part of the vampire thing.
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Hedwig is on a quest; she's on a quest as much as Jason and the Argonauts, as much as the boy in 'A.I.' She's looking for something. She's looking for her other half, and she's on tour. Monsters, Cyclops - maybe they're her mom? - appear on various islands.
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The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.
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The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.
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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.
