Thomas Keating Quotes
Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
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My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.
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Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
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I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!
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I love 'Seinfeld.'
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The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.
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I was in Madrid as a young girl and a teenager. I'll never forget when I went to the Prado Museum for the first time and saw the paintings of Goya. They had such a big impact on me.
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One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.
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Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.
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They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.
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When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.
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It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.
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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.
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No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.
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Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.
