John Locke Quotes
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I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powerful, extraordinary woman. Somebody with superpowers would be really fun, but I'm not sure how many middle-aged women they have in Marvel.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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If you're the only anything in the room, you're going to feel so self-conscious of your right to be there.
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The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time.
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Children come running to the truth But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one's living high another's grieving But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.
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Women’s vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men’s confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.
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Compared to Thoreau, Saint Francis of Assisi was peanuts.
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Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.
