Mahavishnu John McLaughlin Quotes
I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
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Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.
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Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
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Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.
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I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.
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Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.
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So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.
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There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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The population is in a constant state of enforced dislocation. So let us hope that a totally new culture will come out of this.
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Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.
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Don't let anyone tell you that you're not good enough. Don't let anyone tell you that you're too short, you're too fat, you're too thin, you're too ugly - that's nonsense.
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Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom.
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But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.
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I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.
