Ravi Shankar Quotes

Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple.

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• It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Kid
  • Fact

• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
  • Explode

• My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.

  

  Yuna
  • Home
  • Attached
  • Malaysia

• Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Experience
  • Learn
  • Forget

• What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Religion
  • Tradition

• What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Nature
  • Education

• The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Real
  • Business

• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Silent

• We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Just
  • Hollywood
  • Bowl

• World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Religious
  • Humanity

• I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Society
  • Strong
  • Myself

• The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.

  

  Hal David
  • Art
  • Always
  • Talent

• For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Me

• I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Play
  • Person

• When I was younger, me and my dad used to do different things. I don't think I would call it community service. It was more just us doing nice things. We used to donate to Goodwill or do can drives. Give people money if they needed it. Little things like that.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• I go to a meeting every day. I surround myself with people who don't use. I recently got back from Ozzfest and I caught myself in kind of a sticky situation where I was around a lot of people using, drinking and it was kind of - I didn't have the urge to use once, but I just knew I shouldn't have been there.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • People
  • Drinking

• If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm always thinking about maths, even when I'm doing other things. A lot of the time you're going up blind alleys and it's very frustrating, but then you have a sudden rush of ideas. You can live off that for quite some time.

  

  Marcus du Sautoy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• There's only one thing I still haven't done and that's win (the championship). That's the only thing I want now.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Done
  • Win
  • Championship

• To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • People
  • Work
  • Black

• I'm a people person. I never get tired of watching people, especially young people.

  

  Judy Blume
  • People
  • Persons
  • Tired

• And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Lost

• Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • People
  • Disciple
  • George