Aldous Huxley Quotes
My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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You reach a point where you don't work for money.
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Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
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I never planned on being an actress or Wonder Woman, but everything just happened, and I am grateful and happy and in love with what I do.
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As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that Friday afternoon. Would they make it back okay? And what about all the other soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who were also putting their lives on the line every day?
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Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.
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You don’t merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night’s washing-up.
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'I'm not optimistic,' he said. 'The issue clearly flies in the face of the First Amendment. People have a right to tell kids whatever they want about religion.''Do they have a right to push human sacrifice?''Of course not, Mac. But this isn’t human sacrifice. It’s just a church school.''I'm not sure the effect isn’t similar.'
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An entire mythology is stored within our language.
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Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.
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Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.
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There are so many actresses that I love. I think Jennifer Lawrence is a prodigy. I think Elle Fanning is absolutely amazing.
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I experienced bullying a lot. I was an only child, and I was kind of a small kid with a big mouth, and so I always got myself in trouble.
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Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.
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The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.
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When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach.
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
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My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism.
