John McLaughlin Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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We should aim for peaceful coexistence at least and transcultural synergy at best.
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We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
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There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.
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There are problems in doing television that have been plaguing me for years. I really like to have a lot of time, to rehearse and make things as good as they can be, but television often doesn't allow for that.
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I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.
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I like good humor.
