John Stuart Mill Quotes
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
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I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
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I never was a very good singer.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.
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The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.
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Modern political speechwriting is not a high-minded pursuit for brilliant talents.
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
