John Stuart Mill Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
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Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.
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I love helping out good people who are doing good things.
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I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
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Obviously, I'm in a visual business, and people will talk to me about my appearance.
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The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.
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I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.
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Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.
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Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
