Aldous Huxley Quotes
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
Quotes to Explore
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
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There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.
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Love stories should be relatable.
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The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
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I'm obsessed with being human.
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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.
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I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
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My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
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When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn't myself, and that's why certain styles did not work well for me.
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I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.
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I wanna be the biggest pop group on the planet.
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My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
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In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women's rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.
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I'm real clear, you know? There's no fogginess.
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I suggest Substituting Inedible Nurturance, or SIN. Don't replace overeating with virtuous work or exercise; instead, make a list of things you love, from watching TV to hanging out with favorite people.
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I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician.
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Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
