Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.
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As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.
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No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.
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A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.
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The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.
