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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
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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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I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.
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When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.
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The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
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All my favorite songwriters are American - Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lewis.
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Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions
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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.
