John Stuart Mill Quotes

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.

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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.

  

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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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• The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

  

  Carl Jung
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• Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
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• Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

  

  Namie Amuro
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• Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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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 Fun.
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• A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
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• The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?

  

  Edmond Rostand
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• Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

  

  Andy Rooney
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• [The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Work
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• When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.

  

  John Stuart Mill
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