John Stuart Mill Quotes
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
Quotes to Explore
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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I love that '...Baby One More Time' video, to be honest; it's amazing.
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I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
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When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'
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All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
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The problem is, the Endangered Species Act does need to be modernized, ... but the people in charge just want to do away with it.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
