Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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I wanted to write about the transformative power of small acts of kindness. An old man falls in the street, you stop and make sure he's OK. Or even smaller acts than that, though - buying someone a cup of coffee, telling them their hair looks nice - sometimes you don't realise the transformative effect on people. I wanted to celebrate that.
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I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.
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If I'm not prepared, I don't feel confident. It's something that you can have control of. You deserve what it is you're going after as long as you've done the work that needs to be done to prepare for it. You can't just have your hand out!
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You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.
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One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.
