G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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I love recording music.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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I have always liked to get my pictures taken, and I like taking care of my looks. But, I am not one to use beauty products and treatments.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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One of the great things about music is how it can take you places.
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The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
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I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.
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...The modern fading of interest in religion.
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Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.
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Cruelty stares at me from the butcher's face. I tread amidst carcasses. I am in the presence of the slain. The death-set eyes of beasts peer at me and accuse me of belonging to the race of murderers. Quartered, disembowelled creatures on suspended hooks plead with me. I feel myself dispossessed of the divinity.
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We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.
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When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'
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I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in.
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Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.