John Stuart Mill Quotes
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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That December 1992, we Barça lost the Intercontinental Cup match against São Paulo 2–1. It was one of the few times that I had no problems with a defeat. I've always admired the Brazilian coach Telê Santana for his vision, because it always displayed a genuine love of football.
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One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic posture, the fact that we are here for Everyman, that we are indeed Everyman's university, the place where the scholar who is not college-affiliated can come and work and feel at home.
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I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
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Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings.
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We've got to learn how to finish. It was obvious last week we didn't get it done. This week, it snuck up on us. It caught up with us.
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He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
