Jeremy Bentham Quotes
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.
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I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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There are more heroes than cops, FBI agents, and lawyers.
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It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
