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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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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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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The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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It's pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst.
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'Kiss Land' is the story after 'Trilogy'; it's pretty much the second chapter of my life. The narrative takes place after my first flight; it's very foreign, very Asian-inspired. When people ask me, 'Why Japan?' I simply tell them it's the furthest I've ever been from home. It really is a different planet.
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The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.
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Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.
