Alan Watts Quotes
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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I'm a horrible golfer.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.
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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then – because they got fired – the record company wouldn't do anything for me.
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(...) who is he that is not 'he' because of an idiot's ignorance?
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I don't get Many things right the first time In fact, I am told that a lot Now I know all the wrong turns And stumbles and falls Brought me here.
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Oh, but you know, you do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.
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It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
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I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.
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I think with challenge comes a little more fun.
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Writing fiction has always, for me, been an alchemy of turning pain into poetry, ugliness into beauty. It has been a kind of redemption.
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Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.
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It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
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The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in...The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.
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Religion is always falling apart.
