John Stuart Mill Quotes

It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.

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• My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Young

• Life doesn't stop with football.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Football

• I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Time
  • Great
  • Year

• I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Think
  • Lying
  • Said

• I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Glamourous

• There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Play

• I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Business
  • Happy
  • Successful

• I don't read the critics.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • Read
  • Critics

• Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Quality
  • Brain

• Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Great
  • Theatre
  • Shows

• In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Different
  • America
  • Today

• Isn't he Bush the worst president ever? I mean, when his term is over, he has to walk back to Texas.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Texas

• There's not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Giving
  • Hair
  • Artist

• [ William Ayers] is an example of what I'm talking about. This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Guy
  • English
  • Chicago

• Dreams never wear you down.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Dreams
  • Wear

• When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• Literature is dialogue; responsiveness.

  

  Susan Sontag
  • Literature
  • Dialogue
  • Responsiveness

• One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • Black
  • Fighting

• But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and from the motions of all the other stars; and these new planets move about another very large star [Jupiter] like Venus and Mercury, and perchance the other known planets, move about the Sun. As soon as this tract, which I shall send to all the philosophers and mathematicians as an announcement, is finished, I shall send a copy to the Most Serene Grand Duke, together with an excellent spyglass, so that he can verify all these truths.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Truths
  • Planets
  • Wonders

• It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Human being
  • Truths
  • Guidance