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

It's better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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• The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Brain
  • Study
  • Same

• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Live
  • Age

• That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Sex

• If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Brain

• White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • People
  • Music
  • Kids

• I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Fun
  • Chance
  • Romantic

• I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: 'I do not know...'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Humble

• When I look around, I always learn something: to be always yourself, and to express yourself, to have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Faith
  • Personality

• Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Art
  • May
  • Interesting

• The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Shoes
  • Ballet

• Celebrity is very weird.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Weird
  • Celebrity

• The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

  

  Jerry Weller

• I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but it was intensified by my sister, Elena, who is one year older than me. I used to hang out with her all the time, and whenever I travelled, I used to buy her clothes and style her.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Time
  • Women
  • Mother

• The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

  

  Bruce Nauman
  • World
  • True

• Funny is funny.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Funny

• At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

  

  Aprilynne Pike

• We're training kids to do what computers do, which is spit back facts. And computers are always going to be better than human beings at that. But what they're not going to be better at is being social, navigating relationships, being citizens in a community. So we need to change the whole definition of what success in school, and out of school, means.

  

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
  • Community
  • Human
  • Social

• The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

  

  John Corigliano
  • Past
  • Revolution

• The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Way
  • Reputation
  • Atheist

• If you are an atheist as I am, Shakespeare can be your ideal. Everything is within Shakespeare, especially in his 10 greatest plays. They have life, meaning, understanding, the whole lot.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Atheist

• It's better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Atheist
  • Hypocrite