Mahavishnu John McLaughlin Quotes
The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.
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Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.
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Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.
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You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.
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The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
