Charles Keating (Charles Humphrey Keating Jr.) Quotes
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.
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The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
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I love Somali foods like canjeero, a pancakelike bread; same for pizza, burgers, and sushi.
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When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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When it was time for a player to go, he went.
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A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
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This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.
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I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception.'
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I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.
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Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for.
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Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
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If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of aggression.
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Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life...If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.
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Do not keep the slanderer away,
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Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.
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If the soil were as good as the harbors, it would be a blessing.
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I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
