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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When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of light into a burning point. Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
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Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We've known for a long time that when students lack a sense of safety or of belonging or of contribution, learning takes second place to meeting those needs.
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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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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
