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 breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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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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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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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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Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.
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Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.
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Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.
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'The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.'
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I'm happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I'm happy; I'm glad about that. But I'm also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.
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Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.
