Jeremy Bentham Quotes

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Jeremy Bentham

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• I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Mistakes

• I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.

  

  Usher
  • Like
  • Things
  • Daring

• For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Myself

• Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Interesting
  • City

• We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Thought
  • Find
  • Employees

• It's fun to be an actor and dress up, but I'm happy being me and just loving accepting my personal style.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Fun

• Every burned book enlightens the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Book
  • Burned

• If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Home
  • Now
  • Bed

• When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.

  

  Feist
  • Song
  • Know
  • Ending

• Honestly, for a big city, London is by far my favourite city on earth, and I'm not just saying that!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Earth
  • City
  • Saying

• I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Things
  • Public
  • Radio

• It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Vision

• After everything happened, we all got super tight. I can't deny it. We all just love each other. James Garner and David Spade came on and we fell in love with them too. We've just become a family all over again. We don't want to lose anyone again.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Family
  • Love
  • Want

• I think people are enticed by indie rap and every time you have a group going against the grain, they're gonna be like, 'Wow, you did it yourself in 2012, that's impressive - how did you do it? What're you doing that's different? And how can I be a part of it?'

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • History
  • Culture

• For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the roll of the Masters. The artist tends to find himself in the position of a deserter from his social group - or, at best, one who collaborates, with secret reservations.

  

  Harold Rosenberg

• Here are his earlier letters to me, that I've framed. I call them ‘my degrees’.

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Framed

• In real life a right-angled triangle is very unlikely to have a square on its hypotenuse.

  

  H. F. Ellis
  • Life
  • Real
  • Squares

• Picking roles, my way of choosing them is vastly different now than it was a long time ago, but I can only be that way now because of what I've learned from the past. So I'm choosing now not to choose any work, because when you've had such a nice ride, unexpected rides and fulfilling rides, you really don't want to take a step backwards. It's really made me satisfied in a way that I wasn't looking for, but I was blessed with it and now I feel really full, in a good way, where I don't need to rush out and go find something.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Different
  • Long
  • Past

• I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Mind
  • More
  • German

• The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.

  

  Alan Patrick Herbert
  • Time
  • Period
  • Breakfast

• I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Father
  • Dream
  • Inspired

• Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

  

  Jeremy Bentham