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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Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.
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The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans. That experience should be part of every American’s consciousness, and law enforcement’s role in that experience-including in recent times-must be remembered. It is our cultural inheritance.
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I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.
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But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
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I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.
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Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.
