John Stuart Mill Quotes
Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
Quotes to Explore
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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Habits change into character.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
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The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
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I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses.
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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
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In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.
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My family is very nomadic - my mom, in particular, traveled the world as a young person, and her father before that, and I guess I have that inside me.
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'Why are we drinking Zima? It’s beyond irony. It’s not funny or anything. It’s just gross. Why not just serve us jugs of Hitler’s piss instead?''Drinking Zima is something Douglas Coupland would make a character do.''To what end?''It’d be a device that would allow him to locate the characters in time and a specific sort of culture.'
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The best version of surfing is not competing, I think. It's just... it's perfect. You're perfectly present. You're perfectly in the moment. You're perfectly not thinking about anything else in the world. You're just surfing. You're surfing away with your friends or your family, and that's it. You're just there.
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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
