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.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.
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Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.
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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.
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I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We should not be frightened by appearances.
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Like many American millennials, an 8th grade field trip first brought me into contact with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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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.
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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.
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Journaling is something that I've always tried to get into.
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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
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I never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote.
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Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world's remaining superpower to remain in their country.
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I think Polanski's an amazing director.
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Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.
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In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.
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I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It's an edited version that takes so many moments of the movie, sometimes it's not even in the movie. The director does the movie. So don't judge the director based on the trailer. Please.
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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.
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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.
