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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It seems as if there are almost two different kinds of religion, one of which brutally divides, and one of which unites (or can unite). How do we tell them apart, and how might we begin to switch allegiance from the former to the latter?
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You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.
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Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.
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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.
