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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I'm very low-key. I don't really blend in, so it's difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it's a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home.
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My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
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Shadows are where magic comes from. Your dark and dancing self, slipping behind and ahead and around, never quite looking at the sun.
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I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.
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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.
