Craig S. Keener Quotes
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.
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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
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All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
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Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
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Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life. I can't shake it if I wanted to, but I don't want to.
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I think it's unfair to commit to a girl and not be able to give her the time she deserves.
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
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There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no onramp to Bitcoin. We need to make that onramp easier.
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There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama’s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way - and who now, having blocked the president’s policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed.
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I was valuing my survival more than sharing my faith.
