G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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I love cooking and baking.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.
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I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an actor, I would have become a singer. I am very passionate about work. I am a fitness freak: I go to gym before doing my shoot. I also do yoga.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.
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I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'
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Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
