Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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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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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.
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No one person is an island.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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I am definitely a person of color.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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Before I got to the NBA, I always flew coach - it was the worst time of my life. I remember being 14 or 15, and it was such a struggle to fit into those seats.
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Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
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The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.
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Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
