John Locke Quotes

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

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• I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Home
  • Experience

• Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Character
  • Today
  • Effort

• My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Wife
  • Habit
  • Flame

• My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Work
  • Wife
  • Try

• And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sad
  • Purple

• Why would I be excited that a Democrat won? Seriously, over the past eight years the Democrats didn't do SHIT! Basically, the last eight years, I feel, the Republicans stood around farting; and the Democrats went 'Ooh, let me smell it.'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Why
  • Past

• I've always made weird sounds with my mouth. I've always been fascinated by the sound design, what you can do with your mouth. I was the kid dancing around in third grade on the basketball court. While everyone would be playing sports, I would be jumping around.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Sports
  • Design
  • Weird

• With taekwondo, anything can happen, really. You get bad days; you get good days of training, so you've just got to hope that you're on it on your day.

  

  Jade Jones
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hope

• The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get directly to the happy, you've saved a lot of trouble. And it makes others happier, too, when you organize your business around non-monetary things.

  

  Derek Sivers
  • Money
  • Business
  • Happy

• On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• My ambition is very cinema-driven.

  

  Arjun Kapoor
  • Ambition

• The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

  

  Jim Henson
  • People
  • Children

• I would love to do more theatre, musicals... everything.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Theatre

• Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.

  

  Betsey Johnson
  • Pink

• There are 45 million children in Africa who are not in school. While other children are learning, exploring, and growing in the myriad ways that children were meant to grow, these children are trapped in a life of constant struggle. Without education, how can they be expected to escape such struggle? How can their children?

  

  Ann Cotton
  • Life
  • Children
  • School

• Nighttime dressing is not very different from daytime dressing for me. I feel like night clothes don't get a chance to live the way day clothes do, so I prefer to think of night clothes as day clothes.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Different
  • Live
  • Night

• Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.

  

  John Otway
  • Good
  • Live
  • Career

• I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it now. I'm a huge fan of all that.

  

  Dustin Lynch
  • Music
  • Dance

• Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.

  

  John Dalton
  • Fall
  • Wise
  • Secret

• The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Important
  • Revolution
  • Prejudice

• A photographic session is a joint, interpersonal exchange, a kind of creative encounter session at a high level of intensity. For me, photography is more a process of creating an experience than one of looking for pictures.

  

  Norman Seeff
  • Experience
  • Photography
  • Pictures

• In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Examples
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