G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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Broadway is really my life.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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I think I would choose to do things because they are interesting, because I like a character or because it's very well-written. Or because it makes sense.
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The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
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Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle, on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair-holding his wrists like Lifar-and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.
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College softball each year reaches new levels of interest.
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Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
