Kealan Patrick Burke Quotes
STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark reflections. It's one of the better single-author collections I've had the pleasure to read in recent years, and as such, gets my highest recommendation. It's also a fine testament to a talent I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot more from, and soon.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
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Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.
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I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
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May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality.
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We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.
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Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.
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Luck and being honest and sincere about work has worked for me and helped me reach where I am.
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The spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
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STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark reflections. It's one of the better single-author collections I've had the pleasure to read in recent years, and as such, gets my highest recommendation. It's also a fine testament to a talent I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot more from, and soon.
