Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.
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I think that when people download the record they're kind of missing out on part of the experience, because it's really meant to be an immersive experience.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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My mistakes are always around moving too slow or moving too fast without process behind it. And it's something that, if we're not careful, we'll repeat again and again.
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The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.
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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
