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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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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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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There can be no mercy without truth.
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How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitiate, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
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I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.
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What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability but the balance of power in the region.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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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.
