G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
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Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, 'turn on and drop out, man' - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.
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I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.
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I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.
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Believe nothing, not even yourself.
