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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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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When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.
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The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.
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'… a faded black T-shirt with a soaring penguin and the slogan 'Where do you want to come from today?'' – Newton's Wake
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Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.
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Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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Religion is always falling apart.
