John Keegan Quotes
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.
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My best friend is my husband.
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My biggest benching was before the 2012 Olympics. It kind of came out of nowhere. I just kind of had one bad half, 45 minutes, and it pretty much cost me my starting spot.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
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A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
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You come to our stadium and look at the aura of 100,000 people. You look up there and see an Army tank coming at you. You see it on a TV screen, it's one thing. You see it at a movie theater, that's something else. When that thing's coming at you 70 feet high and 180 feet long, now that looks like a tank.
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Some people are more terrorist than others.
