Thomas Keating Quotes
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
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Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.
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No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
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'Lambe them, lads! lambe them!' a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.
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The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
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I started quite late. I didn't know acting was a job.
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Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.
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Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.
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Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so I make sure to have a normal life and to remember that, while it's important to keep in mind these conflicts are ongoing, it's also important to enjoy simple pleasures, too.
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I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.
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Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.
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You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.
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Even though I knew I was inside the space shuttle getting ready to go fly, something about it wasn't completely real up until we got the call at about one minute to go, to close and lock our visors and start our oxygen flow. People often ask me, "What did it feel like right at the moment of launch?" And they're surprised when I tell them actually what I felt was relief. It wasn't like being anxious or scared or anything. It was relief because this is something I had wanted to do my whole life and now that the boosters had lit, we were on our way to go do it and nothing was going to stop us.
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Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.
