John Locke Quotes
Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
Quotes to Explore
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
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The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.
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If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.
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A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.
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I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.
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This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
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I believe that sovereignty is the twin sister of democracy. If there's no sovereignty, there's no democracy.
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Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
