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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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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Science kills credulity and superstition, but to the well-balanced mind it enhances the feeling of wonder, of veneration, and of kinship which we feel in the presence of the miraculous universe.
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In a knot of eight crossings, which is about the average-size knot, there are 256 different 'over-and-under' arrangements possible... Make only one change in this 'over and under' sequence and either an entirely different knot is made or no knot at all may result.
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That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.
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With a bucket of Lego, you can tell any story. You can build an airplane or a dragon or a pirate ship - it's whatever you can imagine.
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Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against.
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When I think of Uniqlo, I think of things that are perfectly made, that people have spent a lot of time considering.
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Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.
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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.
