Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.

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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
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Because we want international consensus...we will be allowing a good period of up to two weeks, maybe a little more, before we ask for a decision.
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At 17, I went away to Pau in the south of France for a few months to study domestic science - including cleaning windows with newspaper and water - while living with a Catholic family with 10 children.
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It means nothing if the movie doesn't get out there.
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Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.