John Stuart Mill Quotes
Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
Quotes to Explore
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The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.
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What happens in the heart simply happens.
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Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
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I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'
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I don't really have any plans in terms of what I want to do - movies, television, theater - but I'd love to do a play in New York.
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My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing.
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People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
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I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.
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If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
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I started singing in coffeehouses when I was still in high school, in Santa Barbara. I took a job washing dishes and busing tables in the coffeehouse, so I could be there, and would beg permission to sing harmony with the guy who was singing onstage. That was the first time I ever got on a stage in front of people.
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The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.
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I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.
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'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film.
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Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.
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It was 1939. There was no money or jobs around. I did my parents a favor and joined the Navy.
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Drama is all about the moment of ultimate conflict for a person.
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I was pretty sure I lacked the wisdom to be the commencement speaker, but after stewing over the idea for about 48 hours, I decided that if the senior class at the University of Wisconsin wants me to come speak, I'll do whatever they ask me. I love that school.
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When you win, nothing hurts.
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Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.
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Informal conversation is probably the oldest mechanism by which opinions on products and brands are developed, expressed, and spread.
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I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.
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Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
