John Stuart Mill Quotes
When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.
John Stuart Mill
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When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.
Ed Harris
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
Barbara Smith
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I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
Sally Phillips
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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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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
Edie Falco
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
Pablo Sandoval
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.
Salma Hayek
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
Patricia Arquette
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Mae West
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
Jack Antonoff
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First you put in, then you get out.
Brian Tracy
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I'm in a television program that is always among the top 20, that's shown in 67 countries in the world, helping lobotomize the entire world.
Lionel Stander
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I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.
Abraham Lincoln
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Composition has almost always been solitary.
Wendy Carlos
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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Francis Bacon
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When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.
John Stuart Mill
