Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.
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Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
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I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
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Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
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I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that kind of media attention happens. I mean, you're doing the same kind of thing that you do all the time, only you have to make these weird adjustments. Like, you're buying a slice of pizza and somebody's outside photographing you which is weird - that's not normal! It's very uncomfortable.
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
