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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The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
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Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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In Rio, 1.4 million of the 6.3 million people live in favelas, or slums. They are all over the city, but favelas are not always a problem - sometimes they can be a solution, if you have the right public policies.
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It really doesn't matter how long. If you practice with your (body), no amount is enough. If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.
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Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.
