Arthur Keith Quotes
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.
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The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans.
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Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.
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A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.
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The worst of failure in this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
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Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
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The life of this world and the hereafter, in the heart of a person are like the two scales of a balance, when one becomes heavier, the other becomes lighter.
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Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp personal "truths" still emerging into perception. To grasp and to shape them.
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The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
