John Stuart Mill Quotes
Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
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When you're a star, critics can't make or break you.
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Black Lives Matter is our call to action. It is a tool to reimagine a world where black people are free to exist, free to live. It is a tool for our allies to show up differently for us.
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I always want to go darker, and I'm always being advised to stay on the lighter side.
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Not having alcohol has kept the weight off around my waist; my skin feels so much better, and I am sleeping really well.
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I've been a vegetarian since I was about 12 years old. When I became a vegetarian, I got my mom and dad to become vegetarian, and my brother became a vegetarian.
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One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.
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Nightclubs are a small-revenue business that go through pretty fast popularity cycles.
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All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
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It's maybe an unrecognized fact of academia that what you spend a lot of your time doing is convincing people of your vision and raising funds to support your research activity. So in that sense, transitioning to a startup wasn't that big of a transition.
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We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.
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We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.
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The good thing about songwriting is you don't have to delineate between what's true and what's fiction; records aren't put on the shelf that way. Books are, movies are, but records aren't.
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I got the idea of meditation from The Beatles. It was a fad, but I've found it beneficial in my crazy life.
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I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.
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Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.
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Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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What makes Batman and what makes other superheroes work is the myth that when life is at its lowest, and when you need a hero, a hero swings down and helps you.
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Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.
