Aldous Huxley Quotes

I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

Aldous Huxley

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• The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Beach
  • Waves
  • Hip Hop

• We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Work
  • Future
  • Democracy

• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Rome
  • Industrial

• I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Fan
  • Tim Burton
  • Tim

• For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Choice
  • Bird

• When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Exercise
  • Find
  • Gym

• Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Father
  • Always

• I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Good
  • Reason
  • Back

• Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

  

  Florence King
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Like
  • Audience
  • Big

• I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • School
  • Friends
  • House

• When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, 'OK, this is someone who dresses like me and I relate to.' I didn't have that growing up, so to give that opportunity to a younger generation of women - and not just Somali women, but anyone who feels different - that means a lot to me.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Will
  • Anything

• I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Think
  • Influence

• I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.

  

  Halsey
  • Time
  • Music
  • Write

• In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • President
  • Place
  • Direction

• And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as governing principle.

  

  Babasaheb
  • May
  • Equality

• I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Religious
  • Study

• It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

  

  Lee R. Raymond
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Miracle

• I have a twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, "Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious," because, who cares? But, I think it can serve as a platform for talking about things that matter to me, like the organizations that I work with. As pretentious as that sounds, it is true. You can really make a difference, if you can create a following and actually represent who you are, as opposed to how people want to portray you. But, I don't know what the balance is.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • People
  • Work
  • True

• I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Morning
  • Miracle