John McLaughlin Quotes

What I want is a clash of ideas, not opinions.

John McLaughlin

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• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Brilliant
  • Rude
  • Outrageous

• At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Year
  • Market
  • Gender

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• I listen to music constantly while writing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listen

• I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Brilliant
  • Actress

• I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Movie

• It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Color

• Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Violence

• As a small business owner myself, I talk to so many other business owners who delay seasonal hiring by waiting until the last minute to make their temporary hires.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Small
  • Myself

• The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive from a failure to communicate effectively what is at stake in those wars and explain why the efforts are worthy of the risks, resources, and sacrifices necessary to sustain the strategy.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Why
  • May
  • War

• Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Weird
  • Watching
  • Grew

• When you want the belt, you have to work for it.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Work
  • Want
  • Belt

• To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Life
  • Look
  • Face

• The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Country
  • May

• Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• Piglet took Pooh's arm, in case Pooh was frightened.

  

  A. A. Milne

• She too had lost her luck, and known death, and gone on.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She
  • Death
  • Lost

• I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.

  

  Pamela Sue Martin
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Fame

• Since Stark had come back from the Otherworld, he'd been too weak and out of it to do much more than eat, sleep, and play computer games with Seoras, which was actually a super weird sight, it was like high school meets Braveheart meets Call of Duty.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • School
  • High
  • Sleep

• I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.

  

  Kim Kardashian
  • Business
  • Dad
  • Lazy

• I liked her scowl and I liked her freedom to wear it.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Freedom
  • Wear

• What I want is a clash of ideas, not opinions.

  

  John McLaughlin