John Gordon Sinclair Quotes
I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on my passport. I don't want anyone to think I'm an actor.
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Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.
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I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
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Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?
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I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
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The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.
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Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.
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I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'
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You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
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I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.
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Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
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My idea of a good fantasy is something that's absolutely grounded in reality. And there's a little element that doesn't belong there - and that's the fantasy element - that you have to react to and deal with in a completely real way.
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
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I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.
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Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health.
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I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on my passport. I don't want anyone to think I'm an actor.
