Locked Quotes - Page 13

• Here's my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can't, he doesn't.

  Dave Barry

  Islands, Tv Shows, Ordinary

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• You cannot foster a collaborative environment when people's offices are completely locked, where you cannot even see the assistant because the offices are so big.

  Marcelo Claure

  People, Office, Assistants

  "The Plan to Fix Sprint". Interview with Ryan Knutson, www.wsj.com. October 25, 2015.

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• I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment. Freud is right: societies either become locked in a collective embrace of Eros, as individuals do, or a collective embrace of Thanatos, the death instinct. They swing between the two. The notion that societies are naturally prone toward self-preservation is wrong. Self-annihilation can be deeply addictive, intoxicating, enticing. So I take a darker view of human nature, that war is probably always going to be with us. I think history bears me out.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Thinking, Self

  "Addicted to War: A Conversation with Chris Hedges". Interview with Metta Spencer, peacemagazine.org. April-June 2007.

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• Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

  Gbenga Akinnagbe

  Growing Up, Home, Numbers

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• I haven't been locked into just the sci-fi although I love it - mostly for the fans...It's tremendous to go out and do all these conventions and thank them for supporting the show. But it's been a mix...I mean I (also) love the warm and fuzzies (like Cedar Cove and My Best Friends' Dogs).

  Teryl Rothery

  Dog, Mean, My Best Friend

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship of being attacked regularly, and making apologies for your abuser. It actually affects Christians living in Islamic circumstances more, and one Palestinian Christian spoke about that problem of needing to defend Islam in order to protect yourself.

  Mark Durie

  Christian, Islamic, Apology

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  War, Thinking, Boring

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• The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dark, Persistence, Humanity

  Buckminster Fuller (1992). “Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity”, p.1, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I'm old school. I'm locked into my own little circle. If you cross the line, you're going to get bit. They'll always know where I'm coming from and once we hit the floor, there's no doubt.

  Eli Manning

  School, Circles, Doubt

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• What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it..........but this is how math is taught and so in the eyes of most of us it becomes the equivalent of watching paint dry. While the paintings of the great masters are readily available, the math of the great masters is locked away.

  Edward Frenkel

  Art, School, Eye

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• Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when invited to a White House reception hosted by then President and First Lady Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Jackson had been assured that the only people there, besides the presidential couple, would be a few staff members' children. Aghast to find around 75 adults and no children, Jackson locked himself in an upstairs bathroom, refusing to emerge until assured that all non-essential adults had been replaced by a number of children.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Couple, White

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• I hate to see somebody get locked up, especially someone as talented as Lil Wayne. You know Wayne is a strong figure in the hip-hop marketplace, and for him to go away for 8 months, you know it's sad for hip-hop as a whole.

  Fabolous

  Strong, Hate, Hip Hop

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sad thing is that, even though we know our lives aren't working in certain areas, we are still afraid to change. We are locked into our comfort zone, no matter how self-destructive it may be. Yet, the only way to get out of our comfort zone and to be free of our problems and limitations is to get uncomfortable.

  Robert Anthony

  Change, Self, May

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.4, Morgan James Publishing

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• Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a cat-locked-out comes at the door.

  Pam Brown

  Cat, Light, Doors

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• I used to get so worried that if a scene didn't go a certain way, then it was horrible. But then I realized that it was better to give the director options in the editing room than just being locked into how it's supposed to be.

  Katie Holmes

  Editing, Giving, Directors

  "Sarah Polley". Interview with Katie Holmes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.

  Gene Kranz

  Should Have, Safety, Design

  Gene Kranz (2009). “Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• Even though there's reasons to try things that may or may not work, it's still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Song, Real, Trying

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• You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.

  Paulo Coelho

  Two, Rooms, Proust

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• A Polish guy locked his keys in the car. It took an hour to get his wife out.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Keys

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• Freedom is the kind of essence of being a pirate: You're away from land-locked Europe. You're not part of the society. You're part of the brotherhood of the sea, Your ship is your sense of identity. So when you approach the wheel, that's what you own.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Europe, Sea, Land

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• I was living in different accommodation and it was never in a place where I could set up my drums and play, so my drums would end up back in their cases and then in the garage. In the end I got used to the drums being locked up, I went a good eight years without touching drums.

  Eric Hernandez

  Eight, Years, Play

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• I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For people who are all about change-people who are supposed to be intellectually and culturally drawn to the idea of change and how the voice of a creative person affects the world on a bigger scale than just the canvas-I would expect a person in that position to have that open mind. It's only a sign of age that they become so locked in their own rules that they forget that this is what it's all about.

  Marc Jacobs

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• Most people's personalities and roles are locked by the time they're nine or 10. I think there's something to that.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Thinking, People, Personality

  "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

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• You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Together, Sound

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.

  Martha Beck

  Inspirational, Life, Sadness

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