Thomas Keating Quotes
What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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Never give up, and never give in.
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
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I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.
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I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!
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As a formal analytical point of reference, primacy of orientation to the attainment of a specific goal is used as the defining characteristic of an organization which distinguishes it from other types of social systems.
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Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
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Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.
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Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.
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The comic strip: upholder of Homeric culture. (p.19)
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'There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.'
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I always thought acting was all lights, camera, action. It's a job; you have to do your job correctly.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.
