John Stuart Mill Quotes
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
Quotes to Explore
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Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
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I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.
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There seemed nothing to do but live.
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What we really mean by free will... is the visualizing of alternatives and making a choice between them. ...the central problem of human consciousness depends on this ability to imagine.
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Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.
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Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US.
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Being a global citizen makes you a more interesting person.
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Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.
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As far long-term aspirations, other than acting, I do want to direct a little bit. I want to get on the production side and eventually start a production company and maybe make some projects of my own.
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I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.
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As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.
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Why haven't I made more movies? Nobody asked me.
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Sometimes you listen to a piece of music that inspires a collection. You listen to the music, which creates the mood, which creates the clothes.
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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I always finish off my look with a spritz of Vera Wang Pink Princess.
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At the age of thirty-seven, I was fat, and since the age of thirty-eight, I have never been fat again. That's the whole idea of effective weight loss - it's permanent because it's part of your lifestyle and the way you think about yourself, with pride and a sense of accomplishment. The goal you achieve is your own - you own it.
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I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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The U.K. really is made up of four nations that never really became one.
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The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
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When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods.
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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
