Bikram Choudhury Quotes
I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.
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The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer foots the bill.
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When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents.
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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
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When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel.
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I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.
