Aldous Huxley Quotes
All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.
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I like to stay home with my family.
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I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupation.
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If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of... terrorism will significantly increase.
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Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.
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A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
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All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.
