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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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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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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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.
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From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.
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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
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Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.
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I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
