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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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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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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Why on earth should we be at each other's throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change than an idea?
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Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
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These days when you say 'videogame', people think of immersive games that take over your life and require three thumbs to control. My goal is to create games that almost retreat into the background. I'm interested in bringing them back to their role as a social facilitator, the way party games help people to interact.
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I’ve watched therapy getting more and more mushy in the past fifteen years in America.... It’s become what I call coercive compassion. It’s disgusting, it’s condescending, it’s insulting, it’s coddling, it keeps everyone in an infantile condition rather than in the adult condition that was the ultimate goal of Freudian analysis.
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Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
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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.
