Bikram Choudhury Quotes
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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When something resonates with you, working for it seems more like play.
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We believe that African football is among the best in the world and very much characterized the Puma brand mentality, which is to win.
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I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
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When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.
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The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.
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Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition.
