John Stuart Mill Quotes
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
Quotes to Explore
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.
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I think that's kind of nice that there's this kind of inherent respect between runners who do a marathon. People respect somebody who has done it, and I will do anything to get some respect because I don't get a lot respect in my life.
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I am a very conservative journalist and prefer to write about what happened, and not what will happen.
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I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who have been forcefully married, who continue to sacrifice. I want to be an example for those people. That's my aim.
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I had seen a lot of bullying on social media. If this is happening to me, who only a few people are paying attention to, what happens to somebody who is on a bigger scale?
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The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
