John McLaughlin Quotes
Journalists can get very pompous, especially in the formalized days of 'Meet the Press,' when they took themselves so damned seriously.
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
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If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
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People like space. But they sometimes have been left out. People are much more open to that if you invite them in.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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Men created civilization only to impress their girl friends
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'All my life,' I said, 'knowledge has come to me for which I was not ready.'
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It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
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I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.
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I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.
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No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to write something where performance is much more important than extensibility, then you might want to choose C rather than Java.
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I've been jailed once, put in police lock-up twice, and was under house arrest twice.
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Journalists can get very pompous, especially in the formalized days of 'Meet the Press,' when they took themselves so damned seriously.
