Bikram Choudhury Quotes
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I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
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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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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
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I love mockumentaries. When they're done right, they're really good.
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Any voting group has an interest that they want from politicians. That's why politicians have to talk to different people. But to reduce the black interest to free stuff is so insulting. It just makes me apoplectic.
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You reach a point where you don't work for money.
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You know those people in life who are a bit eccentric and larger than life or a bit odd? That their realm of possibility around them is larger than somebody who's called normal? What's normal for an oddball? They could start screaming in public. That's fun to play.
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Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.
