John Keegan Quotes
I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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Yoga has helped me to see death as more of a gift than a loss, and that has been my experience so far.
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When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home... piece of cake.
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It's not attractive to be talking down about yourself all the time. All you continue to do to yourself is pull yourself further down into a deeper place of depression and sadness and insecurity and fear and hopelessness, so it's like, having God in your life is important, accepting who you are is important, regardless of what you look like.
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I did 'Christmas Carol' off and on through my teenage years, so I always had that dialect and that sound in my ear, which was so helpful. It became second nature.
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I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.
