John McLaughlin Quotes
Once citadels of free expression and occasional revolutionary ideas, today many American colleges have endorsed political correctness.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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There is very little diversity among founders in the Unicorn Club.
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I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got to stay in my car.
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To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.
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Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
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There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the fishing-industrial complex and its Ponzi scheme, to stop subsidizing the fishing-industrial complex and awarding it fishing rights, when it should in fact pay for the privilege to fish.
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Once citadels of free expression and occasional revolutionary ideas, today many American colleges have endorsed political correctness.
