John Keegan Quotes
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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It often happens that we are most touched by what we are least capable of. Evanescent delicacy is not the quality in the arts that I admire most, but it is often the characteristic by which I am most reduced to envy.
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We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We don't (most of us) tend to know even cows and pigs, let alone bears or wolverines or red tailed hawks.
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The level of our political trust [with China] is also very high. We have similar positions on major international issues or even, as diplomats say, our views are identical. We often have shared positions on key issues of the modern international agenda.
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Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.
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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
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We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.
