Chinmayananda Saraswati (Swami Chinmayananda Saraswatiwas) Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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We are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000 despite a larger population and more kids to educate. We know that the single most important thing in terms of how well we can compete around the world is the quality of our workforce. We can't do that to our kids.
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The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
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There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.
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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
