John McLaughlin Quotes
Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
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I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
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Digitas is a company that's very rapidly changing - the digital world changes every day. It's important we hire people who are curious about what's going on and who are willing to learn and want to learn. I look for core leadership traits.
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Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
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What I am condemning is that one power, with a president George W. Bush who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
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Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.
