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Like many immigrants, I had always kept my Eastern and Western lives compartmentalized.
— Padma Lakshmi
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
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
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
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
One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.
— Beyonce Knowles
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
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
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
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
Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.
— Philip Kaufman
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 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.
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 nowonly 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
Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.
— Christine Baranski
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
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
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
Reading her reviews kept his memory of her alive in a way he probably shouldn't want.
— Rainbow Rowell
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
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 know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.
— Deb Caletti
The leader's role is to make sure that strategy is kept super simple.
— Robert E. Murray
Sorry I kept you waiting solong."
His smile brought one to her face.
"I don't mind. I'd wait an eternity
for you. — Roxanne Kade
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
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
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
