Kept Quotes

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I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave… — James McGreevey
In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot… — Peter Singer
No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at… — George Miller
When I came into the industry I started with acting and I did drama during junior high and high school. I fell into dancing as… — Harry Shum, Jr.
When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there,… — Andrea Riseborough
I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would… — Lev Grossman
I was one of those people who watched and videotaped the Tonys every year and kept a highlight reel every year. I saw every Broadway… — Jane Krakowski
When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept… — James Fallows
The best-kept secret about Don Johnson is the fact that he is a terrific actor. — Michael Mann
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair. — Marilynne Robinson
It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running. — Philip Hammond
I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering… — Jill McCorkle
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free. — Anthony Lewis
I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at… — Bella Heathcote
Love is when you're kept up all night thinking of him, and then when you fall asleep, you find him in your dreams. — Rene Yasenek
Love is sometimes denied, sometimes lost, sometimes unrecognized, but in the end always found with no regrets, forever valued and kept trasured... — Unknown Author
Jean Harlow [Hollywood's sexy actress] kept calling Margot Asquith by her first name, or kept trying to: she pronounced it Margot. Finally Margot set her… — Margot Asquith
It was our preparation, knowledge and experience that kept us alive. — Unknown Author
The less of government the better, if society were kept in peace and prosperity. — William Ellery Channing
The danger is that the cruel arts of their oppressors have enchained their minds, have kept them in the ignorance of children, and as incapable… — Thomas Jefferson
Television should be kept in its proper place-beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life. — Unknown Author
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nick, on the Buchanans: They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Again, He that sells upon Credit, asks a Price for what he sells, equivalent to the Principal and Interest of his Money for the Time… — Benjamin Franklin
And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:… — Bible

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