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• I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

  Jane Horrocks

  People, Flying, Hiding

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• If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.

  John Podesta

  Texas, People, House

  "My Interview with CAP President John Podesta". Interview with Jonathan Singer, www.blueoregon.com. March 04, 2005.

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• Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

  Helen Thomas

  Thinking, White, House

  Phone interview on "The Majority Report" with Sam Seder, April 2, 2004.

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• At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Swings, Doors

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

  Thomas Fuller

  Prayer, Night, Keys

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• The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Thinking, Secret

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• Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Lying, Doors, Dishonesty

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Daughter, Silly, Wife

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.48, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

  Virginia Woolf

  Freedom, Women, Reading

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.610, Wordsworth Editions

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• Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

  Richard Bach

  Soulmate, Two, Together

  "The Bridge Across Forever : A Lovestory". Book by Richard Bach, 1989.

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• I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.

  Morgan Freeman

  Struggle, Bird, Doe

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• I have shaved my head. My flowing locks are now quite a bit shorter.

  David Ginola

  Shaved Head, Bits

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• I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; - and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Gay, Thinking

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.115

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• Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

  Torquato Tasso

  Courage, Men, Years

  Torquato Tasso, Leigh Hunt (1851). “Godfrey of Bulloigne, Or, The Recovery of Jerusalem: Done Into English Heroical Verse, from the Italian of Tasso”, p.13

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• Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Eye, Blue, Interviews

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• There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.

  Willie Aames

  Heart, Grace, Brain

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• One guy wanted an outline of my foot. Another guy wanted locks of my hair.

  Nicole Eggert

  Hair, Feet, Guy

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• ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

  Robert Sternberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Real, Hair, Issues

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• There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.

  Michael Pitt

  Doors, Two, Fire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.

  Guy Ritchie

  Morning, Two, Bed

  "Guy's Guys: A Chat With Snatch Director Guy Ritchie And Actor Vinnie Jones". Interview with Smriti Mundhra, www.ign.com. January 19, 2001.

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• We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

  Alan Greenspan

  Real, Needs, Phantoms

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• "You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

  Robert Southey

  Father, Men, Praying

  "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them" l. 1 (1799) See Carroll 9

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• What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

  John Bunyan

  Confidence, Lying, Greatness

  John Bunyan, Thomas Scott (1825). “The Pilgrim's Progress: From this World to that which is to Come. Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. In Two Parts”, p.161

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• Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.

  Bill Hicks

  Fear, Eye, Gun

  "Bill Hicks: Revelations". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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