Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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It's wild, how many places of conflict that have fashion weeks. It's becoming some sort of marker for these countries that says, 'We are in conversation with the rest of the world.'
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.'
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No suffering is self-caused.Nothing causes itself. If another is not self-made, How could suffering be caused by another? If suffering were caused by each, Suffering could be caused by both. Not caused by self or by other, How could suffering be uncaused?
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Art indeed is long, but life is short.
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Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.
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There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
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Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
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The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
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It was bad, but it was some other slightly less piquant flavour of bad.
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I let the dunks speak for themselves.
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I never thought that being a public speaker would teach me so much about life and make it so beautiful as well.
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Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
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It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.
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Death is sweeter than continued life under tyranny. ... Retaliation is a prescription from God. ... We must rise up and kill those who kill us. .. Let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling.
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All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
