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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous.
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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.
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I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
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I don't read the critics.
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
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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.
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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.
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Isn't he Bush the worst president ever? I mean, when his term is over, he has to walk back to Texas.
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There's not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back
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[ 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.
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Dreams never wear you down.
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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.
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I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart.
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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.
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The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.
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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.
