Aldous Huxley Quotes
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.
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I like everybody at 'Criminal Minds.' I would like to guest star, but I don't know if that is in the cards.
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The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
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I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.
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It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.
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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
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I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important.
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After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.
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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
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Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
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The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare.
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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
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There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
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I think of the U.S. Marines like we used to think of the Foreign Legion; as big mouths with big hearts.
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
