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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Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.
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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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There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists - or anyone.
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'All my life,' I said, 'knowledge has come to me for which I was not ready.'
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Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.
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You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.
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Only super-efforts count.
