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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My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.
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Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
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Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
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For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.
