I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died; it was his 45th birthday.
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ALAN WATTS Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. ALAN WATTS So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they... ALAN WATTS Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a... ALAN WATTS In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th... ALAN WATTS I owe my solitude to other people. ALAN WATTS We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. ALAN WATTS Saints need sinners. ALAN WATTS You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. ALAN WATTS Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. ALAN WATTS No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans fo... ALAN WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s... ALAN WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s... ALAN WATTS How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes,
such enchanted musical instr... ALAN WATTS The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. ALAN WATTS Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in t... ALAN KEYES Arsenal paid a lot of money for him a few years ago but he found it difficult to claim a first-team ... ALAN CURBISHLEY It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. I... ALAN CURBISHLEY There has not really been a lot going on for Stephan, he has not had many saves to make. I want to h... ALAN CURBISHLEY There may be players wanting to leave, and obviously I have a surplus in the forward area, so this w... ALAN CURBISHLEY I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises. ALAN CUMMING Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over? ALAN CUMMING It's a sort of anti-Broadway musical. It's odd, disjointed and spiky. ALAN CUMMING Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what... ALAN CUMMING It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves. ALAN CUMMING It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another. ALAN CUMMING When Brian went by me, I thought he was some guy that jumped on the course. ALAN CULPEPPER In Athens, I was running in long sleeves and pants in the summertime to acclimate as much as I could... ALAN CULPEPPER If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which incl... ALAN LIGHTMAN At this point, our office is going to prepare to go to trial again, ... We believe the jury will com... ALAN CURRY We haven't made a decision yet. I think there's several options open to us and that's something work... ALAN CURRY