Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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My musical career was an accident.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.
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I have a desk that I can raise or lower according to the state of my aching back. Sometimes I stand at it, and sometimes I have it high up to write at and sometimes a bit lower to type.
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My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
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I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back.
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Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
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Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.
