John Lilly Quotes
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
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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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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
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All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.
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Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself.
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I most resemble Benjamin Button. I evolve. I attach myself to the heartbeat of whatever is going on at that particular time, or I just chart a new path.
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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
