Bikram Choudhury Quotes
For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.
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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
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Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.
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With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.
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I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.
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For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.
