Bikram Choudhury Quotes
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I never read the tabloids.
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Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language.
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Nothing is going to stop Mike Tyson that doesn't have a motor attached.
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I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.
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Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
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When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.
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I don't chase money, money chase me!
