Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.
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I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
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I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.
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You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.
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Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.
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The FA Cup is something we want to win, but when you play for Chelsea, it is not something you think about a lot because you want to win every game.
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And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
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Clemenceau, Lloyd George and President Wilson... It is appalling that these ignorant and irresponsible men should be cutting Asia Minor to bits as if they were dividing a cake...
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Call it not vain;-they do not err,Who say, that when the Poet dies,Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,And celebrates his obsequies.
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I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song, 'Hallelujah'.
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My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn't give me a car or furniture - I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot.
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Girls are so in their head about their body image. It doesn't matter how confident you are - it's hormones!
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This is the thing that I think we're all learning from the Chinese: that this merging of messaging, media, and payments together really makes sense to people.
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Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world.
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It sounds really cliched, but just be true to who you are.
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Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
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God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
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One cannot keep all old views and opinions and acquire new ones.
