Thomas Keating Quotes
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
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All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
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There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.
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When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
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When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
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Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer.
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People come up to me sometimes and ask for a picture but don't even say hello. They sort of forget that I'm a person.
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Now we have so many different genres of music, it's amazing to me. Even in the gospel music arena, you've got hip-hop, you got contemporary, urban contemporary, you got traditional, you got neo-soul gospel, you've got all of these different things.
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My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.
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I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
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It's a bit naff, but there is something exciting about pulling a bit of pottery out of the ground that's 2,000 years old.
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For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.
