John Locke Quotes
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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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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I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
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People would go anywhere to see a famous person in the flesh, no matter what they do.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.
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Back in England, a girl with thick black hair, dusky skin and big brown eyes will turn heads. It is vice versa in India.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
