John Locke Quotes
Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
Quotes to Explore
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Dave Chappelle is one of my comedic inspirations. His perspective is crazy, and he's super sharp.
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I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
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I lived somewhat of a nomadic life, even when I lived in Ohio. We spent time in rural areas, in suburban areas, never really city areas. We rode four-wheelers. We had pigs and ferrets. And creeks. We had a creek in my backyard. It was like 'Huckleberry Finn.'
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I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.
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There are, of course, good happy endings as well as bad ones, but surely they are of a kind that in some way expresses happiness rather than glibly promises it.1.
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My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
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I had always done theater during the entire six years I was with 'CSI: Miami.'
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All of my life, when things got too difficult, I folded up the tent and went to bed. I couldn't stand a challenge... I was terrified of confrontation. I was very laid-back, and just wouldn't get involved or fight back.
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I'm still a fan at heart.
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I just want to be a good storyteller.
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My guilty pleasure is sugar.
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When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single.
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One of my goals is definitely break into film, and I want to do action movies as well.
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No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.
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Women tear each other apart.
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They will give us artificial intelligence, and tell us that this is the way to self-knowledge... instantaneous global communication... the way to mutual understanding... Virtual Reality... the answer to spiritual poverty. But that is only the way of the technician, the fact-mongerer, the information junkie, and the technological idiot.
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The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.
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Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms
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We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
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The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.
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He couldn't bring himself to look directly at her. Her gown was the color of daylight just before sunset; if he looked at her too long, he feared he might be left blind once she was gone.
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Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
