George Gurdjieff Quotes

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

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• I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.

  

  Taylor Schilling
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• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
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• No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

  

  Dana Boente
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• Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.

  

  Vanilla Ice
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• The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

  

  Ed Gillespie
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• If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
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• We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • America
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• The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
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• I'm very smart, and I have a great team of people around me investing my money. I'm not buying gold - yet.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.

  

  Larry Ellison
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• Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
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• Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Life
  • Man
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• Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Ignorance

• Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Die

• As digital culture becomes more tied to the success of the platforms where it flourishes, there is always a risk of it disappearing forever.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Success
  • Culture
  • Forever

• You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• In the district I represent, I have to talk to everybody.

  

  Pete Gallego

• It gets lonely. I miss my family on stage. This might change one day. I'm certainly not going to say I'm not going to work with them again.

  

  El DeBarge DeBarge
  • Work
  • Family
  • Lonely

• It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

  

  George Gurdjieff
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