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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Sometimes you meet someone, and they seem great, they seem exactly what you're thinking of for the role, and then you put a camera on them, and they freeze. And other people come to life with the camera on them. I haven't discovered any reliable predictor for that; I think you just have to try it and see what happens. And, you know, sometimes the people who freeze, if you find the right magic word to say to them, you can unlock them.
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Musicians own music because music owns them.
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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
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They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!
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He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
