Keith O'Brien Quotes
There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
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I believe in God, but I don't know what it is - if it's a he, she, a he-she, or anything. Who knows what it is. All I know is that I feel like there's something else there.
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Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.
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After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
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Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world’s policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world’s midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.
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There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.
