Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes
Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
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It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
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I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.
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Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.
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It's a thankless job for police officers, period, but specifically for men and women of color protecting and serving.
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What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
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I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
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Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.
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Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.
