Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
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I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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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.
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It is my passion to direct movies.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.
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'I am of no faith,' said Aenea. 'If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.'
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On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
