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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Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlike, say, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, she's active, brave and determined, the heroine of her own life. She even rescues the prince. And that makes her a rare fish, indeed, in the world of preschool culture.
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They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I believe in term limits. I believe the country would be hugely better off if we had more turnover in Congress.
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I don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got.
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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.
