Ian McKeever Quotes
I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
Quotes to Explore
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To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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Russia is a perfect partner in this direction.
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
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Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.
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We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
