Aldous Huxley Quotes

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Aldous Huxley

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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.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Inspiration
  • Movies
  • Video

• 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.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Brother
  • Door
  • Successful

• Education is so important.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Important
  • Education

• The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Future
  • Change

• No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly
  • Certain

• I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Choices
  • Weird

• 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.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Man
  • Black
  • Deep

• Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Vision

• 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.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • People
  • Work
  • Energy

• If Al Jazeera America becomes just another mainstream TV station, it is definitely not going to succeed.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • America
  • Just
  • Succeed

• 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.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Heard

• 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.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Pay

• It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Ability
  • Happens
  • Pace

• You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Run
  • Theory

• 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.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Movie
  • Son

• I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World

• 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.

  

  P. D. James
  • Wish

• A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Magic
  • Charm
  • Sequels

• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Time
  • Computers

• I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Home
  • Dress
  • Fashionista

• The way that UCB taught us to improvise, you always start from an inspiration from your life, something that's happened to you or a friend. And then you put a comic game onto it. It always starts from a place of reality, of truth.

  

  Jessica St. Clair
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• From the first slave ship arriving in harbor, America stole and judged blacks. Black life that didn't fit into white logic was commercially exploited or lynched.

  

  David Shields
  • Life
  • America
  • Black

• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

  

  Aldous Huxley