Alan Watts Quotes
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.Alan Watts
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
Bam Margera -
I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
Eddie Trunk -
There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.
Aaron Paul -
Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.
Calvin Johnson -
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham Lincoln
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I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.
Rachel Kushner -
We do not want to leave Germany forever. Something I would not be able to manage at all, since my roots sit too deep in German soil.
Wassily Kandinsky -
The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
H. L. Mencken -
Because the brain can be guided by rational calculation only in a limited degree, it must fall back on the nuances of pleasure and pain mediated by the limbic system and other lower centers of the brain.
E. O. Wilson -
We should not be frightened by appearances.
Alain de Botton -
Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.
Alex Berenson
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The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.
Cicely Tyson -
Like many American millennials, an 8th grade field trip first brought me into contact with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Clemantine Wamariya -
I think the average country music fan grew up the same exact way that all the artists did, listening to hip-hop and country and R&B and pop and whatever it may be.
Chris Lane -
I was doing musical theatre 'til I was, like, 17, and then I started realising I could use my voice in a more, like, current way.
Anne-Marie -
They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.
Bill Goldberg -
Journaling is something that I've always tried to get into.
Kris Allen
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.
Lyle Lovett -
To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore.
Liev Schreiber -
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.
Alan Watts