Alan Watts Quotes
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
Quotes to Explore
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her, and I said: 'That's not cool, that's really mean.'
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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I was a really big kid.
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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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'Shake It Up' definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.
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I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.
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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
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When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.
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I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.
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If China wants to spend $10 producing a product and sell it for a buck, who benefits from that? I think we do. I'm the free market guy. I think free markets work.
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I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
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How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.
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Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.
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The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
