Aldous Huxley Quotes
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.
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The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.
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I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director, so it's really reassuring to me that it's just about who is right for that role and less about if you ace the audition. It's just about getting to know people, not about who's a better actor a lot of the time.
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Me personally, I like to wear as few artificially made products as possible. That stuff affects us, one way or another.
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Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.
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Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.
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Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
