Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar Quotes
A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.
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I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.
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There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.
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We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.
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When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
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The first time I passed as a woman in public was on leave in the U.S. from my deployment to Iraq in February 2010.
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A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings
