Aldous Huxley Quotes
Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
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It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.
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I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.
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Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.
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Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.
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I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.
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Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
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Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
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We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]
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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.
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Sometimes words aren't needed.
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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
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Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.
