Aldous Huxley Quotes
We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Most men are fragile.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I had already played a lead on Broadway before I ever did a film. I had had three, four seasons of stock with good, fat parts, good supporting and leading parts. And I had done, oh, God, over 400 live TV shows.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, 'Whoa, man, some day.'
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
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Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat to the bottom of the bag. Because I have the tendency to do this, I found these amazing Eden Brown Rice Chips. They're the perfect amount of salt and crunch, and there's nothing in them.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair.
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'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.
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We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.
