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.'

Uri Geller

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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.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • True
  • Think
  • Democracy

• Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • May
  • Election
  • Promises

• 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!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Doing

• We've never been anti-Semitic.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Never
  • Been
  • Anti-Semitic

• I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Never
  • Role

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• 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.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Process
  • Watch

• Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Father
  • Passionate
  • Uncle

• 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.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• 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.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Change
  • Poetry

• The more unsettling the more I feel at home.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Home
  • Feel
  • More

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Like
  • Woman
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Live
  • Universe
  • Thoughts

• 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.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Life
  • Money
  • Friends

• 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.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Forever
  • Waiting

• Anger is stronger than fear, stronger than sorrow.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Fear

• I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

  

  Jean Paul Gaultier
  • Small
  • Color
  • Grandmother

• You could call me antisocial, I've called myself that sometimes too, but I just prefer to be alone, and that's nothing against you.

  

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali
  • Sometimes
  • Antisocial

• I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing 'have I labored,' neither has my exile been 'in vain.'

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Heart

• A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. Behaving honourably in a crisis doesn't mean being able to act the part of a hero well, as in the theatre, it means being able to look death itself in the eye. For an actor may play lots of different roles, but at the end of it all he himself, the human being, is the one who has to die.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Different
  • Real
  • May

• I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.

  

  Bjorn Lomborg
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• 'Like I told you, I'm not a magician,' he says. 'If something isn't working, I don't try to guess.'

  

  Uri Geller