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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Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.
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If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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A lot of TV can be linear and cinematic and formulaic. What's to say that people can't be creative and surreal - and push boundaries? You can look at a piece of art and not necessarily know what it means or what the artist intended by it. It's the effect it has on you.
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To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
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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.
