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.

Aldous Huxley

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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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• You have to be brave when you've got a kid.

  

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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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• The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

  

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• I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

  

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• The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.

  

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• I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.

  

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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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• Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

  

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• I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

  

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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 played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

  

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• It's incredible to have people show their support when your doing something you love.

  

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• I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

  

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• I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

  

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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.

  

  Aldous Huxley