Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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I never left doo wop.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I don't read books.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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I always try to make each character my own.
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'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're going to turn around and say, 'Hey, we want a bigger say in things.' So, I knew what I was getting into right at the beginning. It's the right thing to do.
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Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.
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I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
