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"You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland."
"My Caps Lock Key Is Loud!"
"Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold."
"It's been very humbling and very cool to see [that at] each show I tend to see more and more kids lock onto the new lyrics and every night they start to sing louder and louder and it's just been very exciting."
"I oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. It's an ill-conceived project that would lock us into further dependence on some of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet."
"don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors."
"New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and not feel in the slightest guilty about it."
"Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through."
"but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!"
"Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !"
"...let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident."
"Malcolm Turnbull got a majority in the parliament that he is trying to ignore and lock his own members of parliament into positions that they don't hold, and sometimes into positions that we know he doesn't hold. It's no wonder the public's started turning on him."
"Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom, Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison That keeps you from achieving what you want."
"You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse."
"The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks."
"The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up."
"I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about."
"George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in."
"If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks."
"Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure."
