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.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Control
  • Person
  • Situation

• Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Culture
  • Know
  • Irony

• As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Place
  • Information
  • Possible

• 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.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Wonder

• Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Good
  • Leave
  • Tattoo

• 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.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Nature
  • Words

• 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.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Question

• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

  Nas
  • Hip Hop
  • Noise
  • Spotlight

• Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Nature
  • Risk
  • Mistakes

• I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • School
  • Volunteer
  • Los Angeles

• Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Financial
  • Divorce

• 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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Creative

• War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • War
  • Problem
  • Solution

• 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.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Marriage
  • Write
  • How

• Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Know
  • Years
  • Dangerous

• 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.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • People
  • Good
  • Care

• When I was younger, I did lots of plays, put on shows for Mum and Dad, made my brother dress up in ridiculous tutus and whatnot to perform in front of them. I think my pre-primary report was like, 'Has a flair for drama' - it was just a little side note.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Stories
  • Tennis
  • Brilliant

• Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • People
  • Up
  • Parents

• There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies, not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbours here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to a different galaxy.

  

  Moshe Katsav
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Enemy

• The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Culture
  • Mathematics
  • Belong