John Locke Quotes
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.
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If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
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What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
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“The husk of a man in the woods below me bled into a creek that fed into a river that sparkled gaily in the winter sun.”
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Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
