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 love being pregnant. You can do whatever you want.
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Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
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I think I'm attracted to the mystics, to seeing needs in the world. I'm attracted to caring for people who are disenfranchised. I'm attracted to getting rid of worldly possessions.
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You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde
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As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
