Aldous Huxley Quotes
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull oursAldous Huxley
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
Daniel Burnham -
You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
Daisy Fuentes -
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
Rachel Gibson -
If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
Lance Armstrong -
There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
R. Kelly -
You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
Tanya Tucker
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
Damon Galgut -
September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
Hamza Yusuf -
I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
Taylor Schilling -
Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
Kate Beckinsale -
I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
Hani Furstenberg
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Jack Kornfield -
I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
Wayne Rooney -
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
Camilo Villegas -
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I was the youngest kid on my street, the youngest comic in the clubs. I always felt like I was playing catch-up. I was very angry.
Jay Mohr -
The Internet opens up so many doors. It's a phenomenal tool for education but also a way for people to be scary and dangerous. We're living in a world where we can be hacked and exposed.
Christian Slater -
FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has said that several foreign dignitaries personally spoke to him about creating a new Internet user fee to subsidize an international universal service fund at the expense of traditional end users.
Marsha Blackburn -
Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
Corrie Ten Boom -
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
Frederick William Faber -
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours
Aldous Huxley