Aldous Huxley Quotes
It is because we are predominantly purposeful beings that we are perpetually correcting our immediate sensations. But men are free not to be utilitarianly purposeful. They can sometime be artists, for example. In which case they may like to accept the immediate sensation uncorrected, because it happens to be beautiful.Aldous Huxley
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
Nancy Gibbs -
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
Oscar Isaac -
Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
Walter Annenberg -
I've always dreamed of having a large family.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
Gary Bettman -
My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
Gary Coleman
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
Felix Baumgartner -
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke -
Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
Laura Osnes -
The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
Ian Hacking -
Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
Ted Shackelford -
I don't like writing with real people in mind.
Laura Wade
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I actually got an initial sense of how big 'Outlander' was going to be on Twitter. We're all on there to help promote the show and also interact with the fans.
Sam Heughan -
It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
Mackenzie Foy -
One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
Natan Sharansky -
A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
Sam Abell -
You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.
D. A. Pennebaker
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I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.
Benicio Del Toro -
I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000, aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes.
Barack Obama -
I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that turn the freakin' frogs gay!
Alex Jones -
I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between form and values in our society, as in thinking about a city and building one.
Olafur Eliasson -
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.
Hal Lindsey -
It is because we are predominantly purposeful beings that we are perpetually correcting our immediate sensations. But men are free not to be utilitarianly purposeful. They can sometime be artists, for example. In which case they may like to accept the immediate sensation uncorrected, because it happens to be beautiful.
Aldous Huxley