John Locke Quotes
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
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There are some athletes who I feel like are just looking for likes, and then there are people who are just real.
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People are questioning if Ted Cruz can legally run for president because he was born in Canada. And the last thing we want to do is pave the way for a President Bieber.
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The people say I have to change? Well, the people have to tell me what I should do to change.
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Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.
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The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
