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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The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.
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He was thrusting into her in one hard stroke that stole the breath from both their lungs. She was small but strong as she pulled.
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I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author has a specific critique about contemporary society in mind, fiction tends not to be the best means to deliver that critique.
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God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
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Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically. . .
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By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.
