John Keegan Quotes
If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
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I am not honest.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.
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No one remembers how the American people responded day-to-day, week-to-week, or month-to-month about the decisions that Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower made during the most dangerous decades in American and world history. But we know now that they did what was right, and we honor them for it.
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I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
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In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.
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If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
