Walter Keane Quotes
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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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.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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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.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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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.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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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.
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
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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.
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The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.
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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.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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One of my favorite things about Tom Waits is not only his songs, but when he does do live shows, it's the theatrics involved. It's like Kabuki theater, really old-fashioned theatrics. Like, standing on top of a piece of plywood lying on some cinderblocks and clapping his hands, banging on a bucket.
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It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice but to read our work. Now that's a very tall order, if not impossible. But why not try?
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Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
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Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.
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Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.
