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.
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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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Be consistent.
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Markets work well with goods that economists call private goods.
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Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.
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I always challenged men, you know, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually they’ll catch up.
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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.
