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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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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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'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 American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on basic civil rights.
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Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
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As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
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Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.
