John Stuart Mill Quotes
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.
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In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by sometimes taking ourselves to task. When the self says, 'O no, I must not be treated like this,' then we say, 'What does it matter?' When the self says, 'He ought to have done this, she ought to have said that,' we say, 'What does it matter, either this way or that way? Every person is what he is; you cannot change him, but you can change yourself.' That is the crushing. ... It is only in this way that we can crush our ego.
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I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.
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I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.
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The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.
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Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.
