John Stuart Mill Quotes
Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?
Quotes to Explore
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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A philosopher is someone who says, 'We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!'
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We need children to play the parts in movies. I'm just glad it's not my kids.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.
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I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.
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Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?
