John Locke Quotes
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Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.
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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
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Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
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I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.
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I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.
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Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm throwing up." Wow. She sounds just like my dad! "I'm only an alcoholic when I get drunk." There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Penelope gorges on her pain and then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away.
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
