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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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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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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We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.
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Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.
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I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's never going to happen again.
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
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Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. The upper class wants people to have ambition and gumption because, if you do, you will participate and you'll move through society into a different class structure.
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Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.
