Gary Locke Quotes

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

Gary Locke

• Why
• Parents
• Dad
• Thought
• Lawyer

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

  

  Feist
  • True
  • Know
  • Situation

• Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • First
  • Essential
  • Secrecy

• After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Want
  • Perfect
  • Whatever

• I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Most police officers are good cops and good people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Good
  • Police

• There are different reasons to make movies.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Different
  • Movies
  • Reasons

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • School
  • High
  • Kid

• The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • See
  • Safety
  • Research

• Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Bad
  • You
  • Race

• Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Friends
  • Worry
  • Moral

• We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Way
  • Change
  • Woman

• Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Money
  • Love
  • Rich

• The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Class
  • Most
  • Marine

• Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Darkness
  • Lights
  • Curse

• Some people were offended by a show about cougars.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • People
  • Show
  • Cougars

• I could never have imagined that, so early in my career, that I'd be ticking off boxes that I've dreamed about since I was a little girl.

  

  Ella Mai
  • Career
  • Girl

• Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.

  

  Meg Cabot
  • Believe
  • Parents

• Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Giving
  • Attention
  • Trump

• I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

  

  Hillary Clinton

• My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Dad