A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan De) Quotes

A spiritual master who is one hundred percent Krishna conscious is the bona fide spiritual master.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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• The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.

  

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• In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

  

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• I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.

  

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• Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

  

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• One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.

  

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• I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

  

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• The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
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• Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

  

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• It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

  

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• Most ballets are more interesting than most men.

  

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• Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.

  

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• Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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• I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.

  

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• Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

  

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• I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

  

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• If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.

  

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• I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.

  

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• In baseball, it doesn't matter if you're tall, skinny, fat, whatever. If you really have talent and you really love to play, I feel like you can make it.

  

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• Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art.

  

  Eric Kandel
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• Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

  

  Anthony Daniels
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• I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.

  

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• Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

  

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• A spiritual master who is one hundred percent Krishna conscious is the bona fide spiritual master.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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