John Locke Quotes
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I am confined to the Lego palate. I don't paint the bricks. I stick with what Lego has made. And the idea behind that is I do want to hopefully inspire kids to go home and create on their own. And if I do, I want them to be able to buy those very same bricks I use. So I don't alter the bricks; I just use what's provided.
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
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The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
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I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
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You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
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Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
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We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
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I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.
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One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.
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In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.
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There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.
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The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.
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The writer of 'The Red Road,' Aaron Guzikowski, deserves the credit. The fact that the dialogue is so understated is what makes this show so appealing, especially as an actor.
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Preference of vice to virtue, a manifest wrong judgment.
