John Stuart Mill Quotes
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
Quotes to Explore
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.
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The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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I don't really know how it feels for an American to go to Mexico, but if you come from Germany, Mexico is a really exotic place. It has this laid back vibe, at least in the countryside, and things don't seem to be as over-civilized as they are here in Europe.
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Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed.
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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
