G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.
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I don't have time to be depressed.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle.
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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
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At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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In 1666, following an unfortunate workplace accident, the city of London burnt down.
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Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.
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I've learned a lot about being in control of your career - and that being positive and believing in yourself goes a very long way. And creatively, the music needs to sound like it's come from you, not someone else who's choosing the songs for you.
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Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
