Kept Quotes

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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry… — Douglas MacArthur
I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though.… — Ian MacKaye
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience… — Malcolm X
The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him… — David Mamet
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. — Don Marquis
I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt. — Groucho Marx
And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of… — Mary Stuart Masterson
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love… — Joyce Maynard
I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my… — James McGreevey
When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause… — Danica McKellar
The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be… — Terence McKenna
We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could,… — Melina Mercouri
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable… — John Stuart Mill
If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing… — Liza Minnelli
I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and… — Kevin Mitnick
If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman. — Marilyn Monroe
I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to… — Haruki Murakami
Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can. — Bill Murray
After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional… — Dee Dee Myers
President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one… — Dee Dee Myers
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and… — Horatio Nelson
I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same… — Denis O'Hare
We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the… — Michelle Obama
There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy… — Susan Orlean
I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me. — Bettie Page

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