John Stuart Mill Quotes
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
John Stuart Mill
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
Adam Braun
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
Eddie Marsan
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
Sam Walton
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
Candice Bergen
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
Barbara Walters
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
Gail Simmons
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
Gary Ross
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
Quavo
Migos
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
Katha Pollitt
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I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it.
Kevin Pietersen
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It's crazy how it is. I mean, I go from being not known to, you know, being so known in the tennis world, in Canada in general.
Denis Shapovalov
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I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.
George R. R. Martin
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[Making meth] is a complex process. The truth of it is that we live in a post-Google world where you can find six recipes for meth in 30 seconds on a search engine.
Vince Gilligan
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Everyone has their 'Showgirls.' We remember the great films actors have been in, and the rest get forgotten. But occasionally, people like to revisit the ones that get swept aside.
Kyle MacLachlan
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
John Stuart Mill
