Claire Keegan Quotes
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I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.
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It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more.
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Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.
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Joy and sadness come by turns.
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Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.
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All you gotta do honey is kinda stand in one spot, wiggle around just a little bit.
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You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine
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When I fall in love I take my time There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why.
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Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.
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Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.
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You gotta turn with the times, or the times gonna turn on you.
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Now it's our turn to kick some tail!
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Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
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In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for.
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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
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I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
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In the West, people pride themselves on being the defenders of democratic rights and the champions of freedom. But if the Western world really cares for the benevolence of the whole world, it will have to turn to introspection.
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I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support.
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Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.
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Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?
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I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.