John Mayall Quotes

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

John Mayall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 29, 1933

Topics

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I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

John Cale

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Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.

John Gregory Dunne

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As an actor, I'm allowed - encouraged! - to explore emotions that have been basically unacceptable in my life. I have a huge well of emotional stuff, and once I give myself permission as an actor, it all comes to the surface. But I'll be damned if I can give myself permission to bring it out as a man.

Andre Braugher

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As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

John Langdon

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Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.

John Sharp

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Being old is such a treat!

Shirley MacLaine

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Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.

Michel Faber

ArtSpacePeopleOutHeadExist

I don't want to think too much about the future. I want to go step by step, and we'll see what's next.

Mirko Cro Cop

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I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

Milan Kundera

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At my first job as an independent researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I knew something about. That is actually very good advice to a young person starting a career because you bring new ideas to the field.

Mildred Dresselhaus

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Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.

Ari Fleischer

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Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

Anohni

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