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.

  

  Ignazio Silone
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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.

  

  Imran Amed
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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.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• You reach a point where you don't work for money.

  

  Walt Disney
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• It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

  

  Hans Blix
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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.

  

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

  

  Barbara Lee
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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.

  

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

  

  Warwick Davis
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• Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

  

  J. Cole
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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?

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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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.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
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• Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

  

  Ovid
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• I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
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• Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.

  

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• One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.

  

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• I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.

  

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• I know so many women, comic geniuses. Where are the parts?

  

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• We are ready for whatever we need to do.

  

  Eileen Collins
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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