Keith Teare Quotes
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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When you are present, the world is truly alive.
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Part of the great thing of looking back on how I went from the cattle ranch to the White House was, I was a country music DJ. I saw Garth Brooks perform for free in 1992 at the Colorado State Fair where I met this person who knew about this graduate school program.
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As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.
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Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
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What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life - here, now, to this?
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I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.
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And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.
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In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.
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You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie.
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I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital.
