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John Stuart Mill Quotes

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

John Stuart Mill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: english
Birth: May 20, 1806 - May 8, 1873

Topics

Freedom Pain Pleasure Things Only

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

Morning Mirror Myself Man Sleep You

I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.

Time Award Feeling Person First Time

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

Rent Things Rather Than Gather Them

A pompadour is actually pretty easy for me; it takes me about five minutes.

Me Easy Pretty Five Minutes Takes

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

Stephen Hawking

Three Kind Two Years Common Disease

I've got to start using my brain more - I've got to be more ethereal and more enlightened.

Brain Start More Got Enlightened

Every actor who's been around long enough knows that when something bad happens in this business, it's always for a reason. Really, the hardest part is waiting to find out what the reason is.

Business Waiting Enough Long Bad

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Good Book Long You Bad Early

Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.

Three Two Hang Answer Four Seconds

'Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge.

Think Copy Awards Magazine Show Far

I believe that every person has uniqueness - something that nobody else has.

Michael Schenker

Believe Person Nobody Uniqueness

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

Louis Kronenberger

Life Poetry Advertising America Copy

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