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 CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.'
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So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
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Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.
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Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
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Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
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By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.
