Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes
In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently what is often regarded as "political" activity is in fact a criminal activity.
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
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I've never had as much success as when I say to myself, 'I get that. I know what the feelings that that character would be going through would be like. I can feel a through line from beginning to end.'
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
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Barefooted workers would take apart, bit by bit, the dying ships with their bare hands, shipyard in Gaddani, Pakistan. On their shoulders, workers bore great metal plates to their destination. People complain about their crappy lives working in an air conditioned work place, imagine having this as your only option in life.
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The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.
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In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently what is often regarded as "political" activity is in fact a criminal activity.
