John Locke Quotes

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

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• I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Movie
  • Loved
  • Really

• It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Long
  • Women
  • Kids

• If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.

  

  Randy West
  • Real
  • Game
  • Career

• I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Great
  • Live
  • Thought

• I have long admired Univision - a pioneer in the industry - and recognized the tremendous potential and influence of the burgeoning U.S. Hispanic population.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Long
  • Influence
  • Potential

• In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Up
  • Feelings
  • Brother

• When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Important
  • May
  • Earth

• I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Friends
  • Lonely

• Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Happy
  • Films

• The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Trying
  • First
  • Everything

• I just keep my cars to myself.

  

  T-Pain
  • Myself
  • Just
  • Keep

• Tarzan of the Apes, young and savage beast of the jungle, wondered at the cruel brutality of his own kind. Sheeta, the leopard, alone of all the jungle folk, tortured his prey. The ethics of all the others meted a quick and merciful death to their victims.Tarzan had learned from his books but scattered fragments of the ways of human beings.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Death
  • Alone
  • Ethics

• I should have known earlier about President Bush, but I gave him some rope - a lot of rope, and then he hung all of us with it. I should have known it when I heard him say 'When it comes to evolution, the jury is still out.' What jury, where? The Scopes Trial is over.

  

  Lewis Black

• Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Singing

• You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  

  Mary Pickford
  • May
  • Failure

• It's certainly possible to write fiction that isn't trivial and isn't what people would call political, but it is very hard to figure out how, because our ordinary lives have such a strong tincture now of the whole world.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

  

  James Patterson
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Book

• The future belongs to crowds.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Future

• On the question if he would honor the results of the election should he lose:'We’re going to have to see. We’re going to see what happens. We’re going to have to see.'

  

  Donald Trump
  • Question
  • Honor

• At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

  

  Marla Sokoloff
  • Time
  • American
  • Opportunity

• I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Cases

• I don't do isolation body building; I just do practical things that help me with the kind of things that are asked of me in action movies. You know, a lot of kick boxing, a lot of sparring.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Help
  • Action
  • Boxing

• New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

  

  John Locke Nazareth