John Stuart Mill Quotes
What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?
Quotes to Explore
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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Don't get me wrong – I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!
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The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.
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Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
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I'm a hands-on dad.
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This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.
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So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?
