John Stuart Mill Quotes
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you.
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Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?
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I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
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There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.
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There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.
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We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.
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The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.
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When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
