William John Locke Quotes
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
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I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
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The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
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Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single, you know, ideology, we have every single background. However, when it comes to the screen, we have one code of ethics and one code of conduct.
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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views.
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There is a sense in which the Christian's life on earth is a dress rehearsal for heaven. Not in terms of costumes and theatrics, but in terms of worship and devotion to the One we will worship for all eternity - the Lamb who sits on the throne of heaven.
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I thought The Big Short deserved a nomination because Adam MacKay is one of the best filmmakers. A lot of what he does deals in comedy and he co-produces with Will Farrell, people don't really give it the credit that it deserves. I think that they actually do great screenwriting and they make great films, very entertaining.
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What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.
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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.
