Aldous Huxley Quotes
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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I had the longest, biggest bowl cut. It looked like I had a perfectly straightened mop on the top of my head.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
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Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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'All this talk of using tax policy to ‘assess social costs’...what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.'
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The worst kind of sin is not to acknowledge that you are sinful.
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There's an element of fervor and passion that you can't describe when it comes to people who, their faith literally might cost them their life.
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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
