Aldous Huxley Quotes
I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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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.
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When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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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.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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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.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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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.
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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.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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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.
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I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
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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.
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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.
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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
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I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
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I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.
