Aldous Huxley Quotes
However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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But I think we need the international market.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
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If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.
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It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.
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Men who work to make it as computer whizzes or owners of black Porsches... are confused when they're told they are not vulnerable enough. We can't fall in love with men who appear invulnerable and expect vulnerability. Why did he want a black Porsche? Because he never saw an ugly woman get out of one.
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There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.
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It's remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
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I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.
