Aldous Huxley Quotes
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
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Education is so important.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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Judi Dench has always been the benchmark for me. Everything I have seen her do is incredible. I also really admire Cate Blanchett. In terms of people I have worked with, there is no one more admirable than Hugh Jackman, for his spirit, energy, generosity and hard work.
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If Al Jazeera America becomes just another mainstream TV station, it is definitely not going to succeed.
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Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.
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We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
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I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.
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When my son is taping for his permanent collection, he sits there and pauses his machine and when he is finished with it, he has a marvelous Clint Eastwood movie and there is no sign of a commercial. It is a brand new movie and he can put three of those on one 6-hour tape.
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
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I don’t think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.
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The number of people who read a poem is not as important as how the poem affects those who read it.
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When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind.
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My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.
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British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.
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You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
