Mahavishnu John McLaughlin Quotes
I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.
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I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.
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As a speaker, I can inspire people to change but as a writer I can guide people to change. That's why books are so important. As a pastor, though, I can be a part of creating the change the world so desperately needs.
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After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
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I kind of view everybody like a rainbow. Everybody on the planet has all the colors of the rainbow inside.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
