Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.
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Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
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I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
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If black people use their resources properly, they can become as competitive as any group in society - take control of our neighborhoods, our businesses, our schools, including our teachers. The only thing keeping black people from doing it is this idiotic idea about integration, about being racially balanced.
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By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.
