John B. Keane Quotes
When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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Chelsea are a big club - we have to win titles and to qualify for the Champions League. There's a lot to do, but we'll try to do it all.
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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
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I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.
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Leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.
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The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.
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The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you.
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You’ve been here before. It won’t kill you. It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.
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They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
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Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.
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I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve ever used in my paintings.
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Endure the journey that you take to reach your top moment. You might not get there right now but when you do, remember what you did to get there.
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A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.
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Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.
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Business money reattaches worldwide Deep inside stops the diamond rocks In a million world, billion world, quitrillion world Rap moves on to the year three thousand
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The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.
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When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock
