Kept Quotes
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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A promise made must be a promise kept.
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I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
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I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.
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I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.
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I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.
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I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.
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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries – to their feet or their knees or their backs.
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I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.
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Most men are not kept within the bounds of moderation by mere admonition, or even by example; it is absolutely necessary to punish them by disfranchisement, by exile, or by death.
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With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
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Off the bat, I played bad. But I didn't let that get to me. I just kept scrambling.
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It's kind of nice that the kids have kept me around this long. And the kids today did an awesome job.
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I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Tamburlaine's house seemed more a place where books kept their people than where people kept their books.
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I guess there can be a lesson. We should have just kept doing what we were doing in the first half. We should have just run the offense.
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Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.
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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.
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Maybe, when all was said and done, that was where love began and what kept it alive: the simple, everyday act of paying attention.
