John Stuart Mill Quotes
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
Quotes to Explore
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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I do what I can do to help my defense.
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I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, 'Whoa, man, some day.'
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother’s hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: He bears a load which nothing can remove, A killing, withering weight.
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Slouching or leaning back may send the wrong signals. When you sit down for a formal interview, lean forward to show interest and active listening.
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On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to such hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing up for him on the general principle that some fairness should be applied. Besides, no one but a fool or a Republican ever took him for a liberal.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
