Swami Sivananda (Sivananda Saraswati) Quotes
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
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I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.
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You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.
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I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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If they keep booing, and we keep winning, I don't care.
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I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
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The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it.
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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
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There's more to life than football, right?
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The funny thing about 'The Naked Brothers Band' movie was that we tricked the audience into thinking that we were actually rock stars.
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Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to listen to your views and advice, and they support you. The energy of many people is thus channeled through one person. This kind of power is positive and authentic.
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There's nothing to scream about because in America we're all one blanket, everybody feels the same way about things, they just need some money.
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Anyone can desire anything, but if you're not going to commit, you're not getting it.
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With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any emotion. And they are so potent, so powerful, and at the same time, they're marks on the page, and that's all. There's nothing else to them.
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The best thing #MeToo did was say women's experiences matter. You can't blame us for what happens to us anymore.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
