Aleister Crowley Quotes

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Aleister Crowley

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• I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

  

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• I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.

  

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• Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!

  

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• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

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• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

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• The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

  

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• Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.

  

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• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

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• I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.

  

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• People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

  

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• When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.

  

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• I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

  

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• One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.

  

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• For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

  

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• There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.

  

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• My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

  

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• What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others.

  

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• When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.

  

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• In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.

  

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• You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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• Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Fear