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

• The idea that in order to get clear about the meaning of a general term one had to find the common element in all its applications has shackled philosophical investigation; for it has not only led to no result, but also made the philosopher dismiss as irrelevant the concrete cases, which alone could have helped him understand the usage of the general term.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Alone
  • Philosophical

• The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Family
  • Money
  • Die

• To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Gun
  • Entrepreneur

• The Sphinx, the Pyramids, the stone temples are, all of them, ultimately, as flimsy as London Bridge; our cities but tents set up in the cosmos. We pass. But what the bee knows, the wisdom that sustains our passing life - however much we deny or ignore it - that for ever remains.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Wisdom

• I had done a lot of indie movies before I realized that acting could be a way for me to get my family out of poverty. It was at that point that I decided to take acting seriously.

  

  Coco Martin
  • Family
  • Done
  • Poverty

• When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.

  

  Craig Sager
  • People
  • Life
  • Forever

• Combat stress isn't the only problem for soldiers isolated in Iraq - there are family issues, re-integration issues when soldiers go home on leave, loneliness.

  

  John Sandford
  • Family
  • Home
  • Stress

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

  

  Aldous Huxley