John Locke Quotes
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.
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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
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He managed to lie by implication while speaking words that were the literal truth, a skill he had grown good at, if not proud of.
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The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible.
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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
