Kevin Keegan Quotes
As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
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I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
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Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.
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I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.
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I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture to that and they bring also the place where the original culture meets the new culture.
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As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.
