G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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I think its naive to think you can push yourself as hard as someone else can push you, but I work really hard on my own. I know my body.
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People love to hate. I have a love-hate relationship with the world. The world loves to hate me.
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It is vital that the entire international system is ready to meet the challenges of future disasters.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.
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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
