G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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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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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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I'm not a team sports person type person, so I probably would have been good at tennis, because I like tennis. But my parents really didn't push me. I think if my parents would have guided me and stay committed, I could have played any sport I wanted to, but I never did.
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I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.
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Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas.
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If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite direction, and pictured Nature when she was 'young and wantoned [sic] in her prime', as moving with the lame sedateness of advanced middle age. It became necessary, therefore, as Dr. [Samuel] Haughton expresses it, 'to hurry up the phenomena'.
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My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."
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What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
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Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
