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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Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.
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I just have so few sunrises left, and I want to be happy.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
