U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes

The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time.

U.G. Krishnamurti

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• There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Parents
  • Marriage
  • Struggle

• If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Horse

• I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Believe
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• A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Information
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  • Valuable

• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Way
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  • Very

• My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

  

  Jack Black
  • Children
  • Love
  • Death

• Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Without
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• I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Art
  • Thought
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• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
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• I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

  

  Kate Hudson
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• If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Time
  • Government

• If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Want
  • Style
  • Purpose

• Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • You
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  • Crisis

• Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Life
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• In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.

  

  Eddy Cue
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• Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Son

• Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Think
  • Best

• If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • People

• It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Circles
  • Minorities

• But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.

  

  Danny McBride

• I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.

  

  Andrew O'Hagan
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Writing

• No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Work
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• The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
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