John Stuart Mill Quotes
Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
Wendell Phillips
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
Naoto Kan
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I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
Narada Michael Walden
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Cuando tu dolor es un poco mayor que mi dolor, me siento un poco cruel.
Antonio Porchia
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Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
Garry Winogrand
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This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.
Zadie Smith
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It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.
Amy Poehler
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The advice from the medical staff is to give Jeremy the opportunity to rest his injury and unfortunately that means missing out on the tour.
Eddie Charles Jones
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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.
Anne Carson
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If you're doing things that you don't want to be doing or you're working with people who aren't making you better and you're not learning, if things aren't challenging you, you could be wasting your time. You might be making some money, but you might not be improving as an actor.
Luke Grimes
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I have to keep inspiration close to me. I'm always on YouTube looking at the greats or anything that can give me the spark that I need.
Earl Thomas
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The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.
Edwidge Danticat
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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
Auguste Renoir
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My mother had me on four times on TV show 'To Tell The Truth'. Four times. Only once as a contestant, but they had a bunch of kids on at the beginning of some shows, playing with toys or things like that.
Cynthia Nixon
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I am the entertainer and I know just where I stand Another serenader and another long haired band Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts, But I know the game, you'll forget my name, And I won't be here in another year If I don't stay on the charts.
Billy Joel
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A drunkard cannot plead his case.
Nachman of Breslov
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Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more versatile than people realise it to be. It's a beautiful instrument, very rhythmic and melodic. You can do anything with it.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
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What is technically called the 'fungibility' of money, is its chief value as an article of commerce; and this fact could not long remain recognized, even by such a conservative class as legal officials.
Edward Jenks
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Today the man who has the courage to build himself a house constructs a meeting place for the people who will descend upon him on foot, by car, or by telephone. Employees of the gas, the electric, and the water- works will arrive; agents from life and fire insurance companies; building inspectors, collectors of radio tax; mortgage creditors and rent assessors who tax you for living in your own home.
Ernst Junger
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Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.
John Stuart Mill