John Stuart Mill Quotes
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.

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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
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I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
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You definitely need to have red lipstick no matter what. You can have a great outfit, but it will always give you that extra little pop. I also love perfume. It doesn't even matter what the perfume is. I like to smell sweet.
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When I went to the Yellow Cab Company I passed the Cancer Building and I remembered that there were worse things than looking for a job you didn't want.
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I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.
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One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.
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In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.