John Stuart Mill Quotes
Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.
Quotes to Explore
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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G.I. Joe has a heart and an attitude that feels right and familiar to me, so they could have ray guns, and they'd still feel more like real troops than many other franchises.
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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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I'm doing activations with companies you would never think of. Not to say this in a braggadocious way, but I'm not putting myself in a box. The only thing that goes in a box is Chinese food and your sneakers - not me.
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While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.
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There is nothing quite like a freshly brewed pot of tea to get you going in the morning.
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Amaal is a music composer, and I am singer, so I think we compliment each other rather than competing with each other.
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I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.
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You look at Richard Pryor and Robert Klein and George Carlin and Richard Lewis - those guys were so smart, they were the thinking-man stand-ups.
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The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
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I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
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"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.
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Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
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These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.
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Each material is only what we make it.
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I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.
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Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.
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As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.
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Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.
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Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.
