John Locke Quotes
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
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Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call it a movie) that I have ever seen. He thought it was better than Finding Nemo and we had a fruitless argument which I'm sure made him acutely aware of the disadvantages of having a film critic for a dad.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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I love the Scottish accent; it is very sexy.
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The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.
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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them.
