To me, there’s so much talent in the world that’s locked out for the wrong reasons, whether it’s innovators at the highest end where we need to change the regulation systems, or whether it’s the talented people who work here who the bureaucracy’s holding back, or the amazing American people.
People in tennis, they’ve been in a certain bubble for so long they don’t even know who they are, because obviously it’s just been tennis, tennis, tennis. And let it be just tennis, tennis, tennis. Be locked into that. But when tennis is done, then what? It’s kinda like: Let’s enjoy being great at the sport.
Before I left for the bubble, a couple days prior I started taking notes on everything I was doing, how my workouts were and stuff like that. I just did it throughout the bubble. It does help me for sure. It keeps me locked in, just always reminding myself of what I need to do.
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people. You know, getting locked up all the time and going through so much oppression and seeing it all around myself, I wanted to be a voice for it.
I was a young kid; I did a little time in the Billerica House of Correction, and it basically turned my life around because I said, ‘Oh, I’ll never be locked up again. They’re not taking away my privacy.’ So I flipped a coin: heads – Miami, tails -California.
The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in ’90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it.
People use the ‘love’ word too early. When you’ve got that trust thing locked down, when you’ve lived together, and you know each other’s good and bad qualities inside out, at that moment, you know if you truly love someone.
Against our zone, even really good offensive teams take longer than usual to get into their patterns, maybe 30 seconds. So we’re locked into playing defense for that long… it’s hard to run on offense after you’ve been hunkering down on D for that long.
I’ve endured humiliating experiences trying to get a cab in the various cities I’ve visited and lived in. Available taxis – as indicated by their roof lights – locked their doors with embarrassingly loud clicks as I approached. Or they’ve just ignored my hail altogether.
Every time you play against somebody like Giannis, you have to be really locked into the game plan.
I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.
The thing about hip-hop is that it’s from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.
We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn’t a big research show. With the ‘Wounded Knee’ project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we’re talking about.
I’ve locked myself in my room and wanted to be on my own a lot in my career, but I don’t do that anymore.
When I grew up, there were locked cabinets in public libraries. You needed parental permission if you were under eighteen. I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works.
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Nelson was locked up on Robben Island, and wives like me had been warned we would bring our husbands home as corpses from that place. But I always believed he would be released. It was my duty to have a home ready for us.
I’m finally locked into the now, and it’s great.
The only way I’m going to support my family is to tour. I love playing, don’t get me wrong. That 90 minutes every night, that’s free. We get paid to travel. But every night, I have to get myself locked in. There are a thousand people that don’t want to be disappointed, because they have a lot of expectations.
The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource – the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.
It’s good to be able to run and have a balanced offense. They’ve got to be worried about both things. They can’t just focus on the run game or the passing game and have us locked down that way. So when you have balance, good things are going to happen on offense.
I sort of locked into the idea that if I could be the perfect son to both of my parents, well maybe that would be enough to keep them together. And ultimately, obviously, it wasn’t. Regardless of what I tried to do. That was a lesson about limitations.
There was a Japantown in San Francisco, but after the internment camps that locked up all the Japanese, Japantown shrunk down to just a couple tourist blocks.
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.
Sometimes I see myself as a locked box – very detached from myself and others. But I feel lucky, because I am the owner of my time, and you cannot buy time.
With video games, imagine it’s not locked – it’s a TV show people can reach in and do this and do that, and you need to have dialog for all of that stuff.
I’ve been locked up for not having insurance, only to be released. I mean, this sort of thing is just par for the course when you’re Black or brown in America.
I’ve never been to jail. I’ve never been arrested. I’ve never been locked up.
The relocated Powerhouse Museum in Parramatta will be the anchor for arts and culture for the region, and now the site for the museum is locked in.
Everyone’s past is locked up in their recipes – the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
Truthfully, I just love the game of football and I’m just so locked in on doing my job that I kind of forget it’s the Super Bowl.
I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I’d be very, very happy.
If you want to act like a butthead, your butt is going to get locked up.
The Khmer Rouge can’t destroy me. I still have my imagination and am capable of making films. I am not locked up.
When I’m wearing my uniform I’m still locked into the game.
There was someone from China who came down to my house and locked himself outside the gate. He wanted to marry me and created a lot of trouble. I had to eventually report to the police and put him behind the bars.
In a certain way, I believe ‘Trapped’ is far more accessible than ‘Lootera.’ What makes it accessible is that it can happen to anyone. We all have a fear of getting trapped in a certain place or being locked out of our houses.
For those of us who want to accomplish something for the country, we need to come up with a list … of anti-spending reforms which are locked into place so we are dramatically lowering the appetite of the federal government over the future.
People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it’s locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they’d stamp ‘top secret’ on the color of the walls.
I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don’t go out. I’m just locked away, writing. It’s a time of meditation, of going into the story.
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
The minimum I run each day is 2 1/2 miles. I’ll get to the weekend, and sometimes I’ll run 10 miles. I’ve gotten up to 16 miles on the weekend. Running keeps me locked in.
If it’s a shot for me, if I can make a play, create for someone else, I’ll do that. A lot of times you run a play, everybody’s watching, everybody’s locked in, everybody’s pulling over, and it just makes the game tougher for me.
As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I’d get locked in a grocery store.
Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
I can’t show, let alone share, my emotions. In fact, I’ve kept it all locked up within myself all my life. Yeah, it’s a problem, especially when it comes to relationships with the people close to me.
Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.
I play piano, and I was really, really obsessive about playing piano in high school. I don’t know if that’s nerdy, but I definitely locked myself in the room and was playing jazz. I was 14. I guess that’s kind of cool, actually.
