Deepak Chopra Quotes
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I choose to express myself.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
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The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
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Training is vital. You need to know the technical aspects of acting, just in case someone hands you a monologue and simply says, 'Cry here and laugh here.' You have to be able to make sense of it all.
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When you look in the mirror at the end of the day, make sure you feel good about what you see.
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How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
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Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
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Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
