U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes
Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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I want to make smart choices.
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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
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Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.
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The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it, to the point that not only did I change parties, I decided to do something about it and run for Congress.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
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I love Oprah to death.
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Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.
