Alan Watts Quotes
The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
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Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
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Looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage.
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I think that when you get right down to it, people do evolve on different issues. And, you know, I'm pro-life. And I was begrudgingly the other way.
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The problem with the whole issue is that both sides need to be accommodated. There does need to be better border security for national security purposes, but in my view you cannot have better border security until you deal with the problem of finding a way for people to immigrate legally. People are not crossing the border risking life and limb to do so because they're too lazy to go down to the visa office and apply legally.
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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
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The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.
