G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes

If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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• Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Why
  • You
  • Interview

• Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Business
  • Tough
  • Pragmatic

• I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Like
  • Dark

• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Death
  • Winning
  • Dying

• If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Culture

• I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Anything
  • Watch
  • Would

• People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Good
  • Sun

• Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Marriage
  • Woman
  • Gay

• I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Hope

• The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Great
  • Country
  • Education

• I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Driving

• I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Forget

• Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Government
  • Following
  • Even

• On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Poetry
  • Books
  • Living

• All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • War
  • Culture
  • Will

• For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Watch

• When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it – MS overall, as a subject, as a disease – there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Disease
  • Close
  • Diagnosed

• But if in vain, down on the stubborn floor Of Earth, and up to Heav'n's unopening Door You gaze To-day, while You are You - how then To-morrow, You when shall be You no more?

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Door

• One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Party
  • Tea
  • Conservative

• Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that swept Republicans to victory in 1994. A Democratic anti-Tea Party campaign would do that for the Republicans - nationalize the election, gratis - in 2010.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Work
  • America
  • Party

• I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive, and it loves me. Coffee and tea and the Java and me, A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup.

  

  Ben Oakland
  • Coffee
  • I Love
  • Tea

• My family is the most important thing in my life. I would love passionately to have my own children. To have a baby inside me - it's one of my dreams in lie. I would love to hold my children, to run to them, to give them the same happiness my family gives to me.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• The first time you went to the gym, to be trained and worked out, there'd be about four or five wrestlers, they'd take you to heavy calisthenics and then they beat the tar out of you... after you got tired. If you came back the next day they'd do the same thing. After about four days of you surviving this punishment, then maybe they might show you how to wrestle. That was to teach respect.

  

  George Steele
  • Respect
  • Trained
  • Surviving

• If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Tea
  • Spirituality
  • Cups