G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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I think the PC will continue to be around for a long, long time to come. We see a new range of products evolving around the PC, but it's not going away.
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Holy cow, in the course of one week I feel like I've lived about a year!
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.
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If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.
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No study is possible on the battlefield.
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These days I seem to think a lotAbout the things that I forgot to doFor youAnd all the times I had the chance to.
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Doors open to you every time you get a different role. So, yeah, the research is my passion; that's why I keep doing it.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread.
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If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.
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I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.
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Only super-efforts count.
