John Lilly Quotes
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I love women more than anything.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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J. J. Abrams is amazing.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
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In the U.K., there's absolutely no money for television. So you can do pretty much whatever you want. They're not losing money on any of the shows, so they'll give you a lot of creative freedom. In the United States, there are millions and millions of dollars at stake, so they need a sure formula.
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Lately Marge's memory had grown weak, which is to say that it no longer contained the past time on deposit there, it was not strong enough to keep shut up the moments, the mornings and evenings, of her long life, its seals broke, and her memories ran together mingling, indistinguishable from the present. Her memory had grown incontinent with age.
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I don't like reality TV. I don't want to look down on people.
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Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman John Lewis at a book festival.
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All laws are simulations of reality.
