Walter Keane Quotes

Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.

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• The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Small
  • Islam
  • Prophet

• Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • I Can

• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • New
  • New York
  • Driver

• Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
  • Business
  • Ideas

• I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Failure

• Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Journey

• Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • Progress
  • End

• God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • God
  • Movie
  • Easy

• One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Me
  • President
  • Difficult

• I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
  • Play
  • Games

• I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Night

• I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Peace
  • Thought
  • Desert

• Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Life
  • May
  • Man

• My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Methodist

• I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Life
  • Career
  • Rest

• The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• Imagine feeling like every kiss goodbye to your loved ones each day might be your last kiss. Police officers and their families feel this way every single day.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Feeling
  • Single
  • Day

• If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Great
  • Want
  • You

• I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Remember

• I really love learning about animals. I pull from a deck of spirit animal cards. You pull one, and it's about 50 or 60 different animals, and then that day you read whichever animal you pull. And it kind of gives you insight.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Different
  • Learning
  • Animal

• Nature is neutral.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Nature

• For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Father

• I get to do some kind of artwork almost everyday and it just so happens that I can pay the bills and support my family while doing it.

  

  William Webb
  • Family
  • Support
  • Everyday

• Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.

  

  Walter Keane
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