Uri Geller Quotes
'Like I told you, I'm not a magician,' he says. 'If something isn't working, I don't try to guess.'
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I don't know anything about music.
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The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.
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Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
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Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
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The more unsettling the more I feel at home.
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When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.
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The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.
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My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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Anger is stronger than fear, stronger than sorrow.
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The prediction of my disruption theory would be that Apple won't succeed with the iPhone. They've launched an innovation that the existing players in the industry are heavily motivated to beat: It's not truly disruptive. History speaks pretty loudly on that, that the probability of success is going to be limited.
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It's not easy to stand out as a young artist.
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Everything is a risk in Pakistan: If you defend women, it's a risk. If you defend non-Muslims it's a risk. If you discuss religion, it's a risk. But you can't really sit there like a vegetable in your own society. And I'm committed to that society... and I feel I need to turn around and speak as I should.
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Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.
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'Like I told you, I'm not a magician,' he says. 'If something isn't working, I don't try to guess.'
