Mahavishnu John McLaughlin Quotes
The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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War is never a lasting solution for any problem.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.
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I cannot live anywhere else except India.
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Asylum is for people fleeing persecution, not those searching for a better job. Yet our broken system - with its debilitating court rulings, a crushing backlog, and gaping loopholes - allows illegal migrants to get into our country anyway and for whatever reason they want. This gaming of the system is unacceptable.
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Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids.
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Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.
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The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
