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Like many immigrants, I had always kept my Eastern and Western lives compartmentalized. — Padma Lakshmi

I had extra thick light sabers because mine kept getting bent. I'd be halfway through a fight and it would be like 'Oops, sorry! Mine's bent again! — Ewan McGregor

My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate. — Sri Chinmoy

Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept. — Lord Chesterfield

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men. — H.L. Mencken

How pride had kept them from admitting their mistakes - and — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order. — Tahir Shah

It kept the loneliness of crushlessness from being entirely crushing. — John Green

You kept quit ... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quit. — Paul Kagame

surfaces are not for storage. Rather, surfaces are for activity, and should be kept clear at all other times. — Francine Jay

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. — Samuel Butler

Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute. — Joe Frazier

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels. — David Rockefeller

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity. — Kobayashi Issa

One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't get it back. So I made sure I kept all my clubs. — Rickie Fowler

I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself. — Jamie Chung

The spotlight kept rowing back and forth across the face of the ridge. Methodically. Bright shuttle, dark loom. — Cormac McCarthy

I kept my promises. — Scott Walker

Many years ago, I made a New Year's resolution to never make New Year's resolutions. Hell, it's been the only resolution I've ever kept! — D.S. Mixell

One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged. — Beyonce Knowles

I've always kept my word, and my clients have always kept their word. — Robert Shapiro

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot. — Steven Wright

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have. — Henry Ward Beecher

A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret. — Julian Assange

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down. — Chris Lowe

I'm not a celebrity, I've kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career. — Shia Labeouf

From one match to the next, I kept on winning. — Tracy Austin

She does not faint at my touch. She might not faint, but swooning was a definite possibility if he kept drawing on her skin like that. — Elizabeth Hunter

I've struggled in my life. I've had hard times, but I kept pressing on. — Dwyane Wade

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon. — Thomas Hood

I think watching my mom gave me great inspiration, I wish that had been reinforced more verbally. It would have kept me from a lot of pain. — Viola Davis

Satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years! — Anton Szandor LaVey

In fact he was rather boring on the subject, but I kept quiet and took comfort in that old saying about fallen apples and their distance from trees. — David Nicholls

The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion. — John W. Gardner

I kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame and stilled with filthy lies. Perhaps I should have dug deeper. — Nicole Lyons

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past. — Ben Lerner

What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love? — Rachel L. Schade

Both men knew the only thing more valuable than a favor well done was a secret well kept. This had the potential to be both. — Pearl Cleage

The hardest thing on 'Palo Alto' was letting go because I kept working on it, trying to make it better. — Gia Coppola

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama. — Jane Alexander

Jared kept flashing me smirks, no doubt fully informed of his progress on Operation Kill Tate and K.C. The — Penelope Douglas

Are you nuts?" I kept my eyes on the dog when I said, "I prefer the term eccentric. — Barbra Annino

Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned. — Philip Kaufman

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred — C.S. Lewis

Well I had the perfect job, perfect house and perfect family and I didn't know it. I kept striving for more. — Annette J. Dunlea

rain rots what is kept wrapped up, but not what is uncovered. — Sherab Chodzin Kohn

My parents, they're the kind of people that didn't want me to get a big head, so they just kept challenging me and challenging me. — Abby Wambach

I agree that there are things that should be kept secret. — Daniel Ellsberg

Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades. — Olga Broumas

My dad is a man that, for as long as I can remember, has kept a book of favorite things his kids say. — Nikki Reed

She always kept up the questioning until she received a satisfactory answer. — Margot Lee Shetterly

Dreams are to be chased not to be kept in the memories. — Harsh Malik

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high. — Jerry Stahl

I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time. — George Tillman Jr.

It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas. — Karl Kraus

Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em. — Dick Dale

Even though his voice kept its squeakiness, he never forgot to hold his head high. Beckett had paid dearly to defend him, so he made it count. — Debra Anastasia

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. — Katarina Witt

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now
only that place where the books are kept. — John Steinbeck

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs. — Eli Broad

carts and made their way to the two rooms kept for them. Tired from their travels, the children — Sunila Gupte

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

You've always kept my secrets. I'll always keep yours — Kiera Cass

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better. — Christine Baranski

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days. — Steffi Graf

Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring. — Julia Glass

She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. — Oscar Wilde

You needed the secret kept for you more than I needed the truth to come out. — Rebecca Serle

People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country. — Vivian Vande Velde

I stayed awake and kept watch. Plus you look all cute and nonlethal when you sleep. — Amy Tintera

Years of people pushing and demanding that she conform left a scar on her soul that kept her own self from emerging — Tina J. Richardson

I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis. — Bruce Gilden

Reading her reviews kept his memory of her alive in a way he probably shouldn't want. — Rainbow Rowell

I wore high heels for the first time and they kept sticking in the mud. — Mindy McGinnis

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction — Freya Stark

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private. — Andy Goldsworthy

Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use. — Dalai Lama

I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest. — Edie Falco

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear. — Clarence Darrow

No matter how much I kept telling myself that I was behaving like an idiot, it was no use. — Knut Hamsun

I kept going into the beautiful dark and never let anyone intrude on my world again. — Jeff Carlson

He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave. — Texas Guinan

I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons. — Deb Caletti

And the light kept darkness away until the Morning Star came and found it burning — Michael Malone

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever. — Charlie Sheen

The leader's role is to make sure that strategy is kept super simple. — Robert E. Murray

Only by using faith are we kept from practically losing it, and, on the contrary, to use faith is to lose the unbelief that hinders God's mighty acts. — George Muller

Sorry I kept you waiting so
long."
His smile brought one to her face.
"I don't mind. I'd wait an eternity
for you. — Roxanne Kade

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest. — Samuel Johnson

Kept looking for something to be in with. Follow someone's blueprint. But you have to be on your own. — Donald Glover

He marveled at the indifference of the world, the way it kept on, despite everything. — Anthony Doerr

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. — John Updike

As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more. — George Takei

It was only by scorning all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently painful. — Virginia Woolf

She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over. — David Gest

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares. — Charles R. Schwab

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations. — Natan Sharansky

Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept. — Randy Alcorn

God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me. — Joyce Meyer