John Lewis Gaddis Quotes
I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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Music is about the performance.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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The one thing we know about the future is that it will not be like today. I don't think that people should be too anxious about not knowing what they are going to do in the future, because we really can't know.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
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I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.
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I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about it.
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When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we've never crossed before.
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I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead of you.
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It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.
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Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.
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I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.
