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 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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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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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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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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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.
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Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.
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My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.
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In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.
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I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.
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Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.
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The question 'Why white kids love hip-hop?' forces us immediately to deal with the historical weight of race in America. On the surface people see hip-hop and race as nothing new. I think the ways young white Americans are engaging hip-hop suggest something more.
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Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.
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Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.
