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John J. McLaughlin Quotes

When faced with economic uncertainty, people don't want freedom. When they can't see their economic future, they want the nanny state.

John J. McLaughlin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 29, 1927 - August 16, 2016

Topics

Future Freedom People Uncertainty

I think I'm going to be successful in WWE.

Think Successful Going WWE I Think

With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they're doing will make the world a better place.

Villain World Think Better View You

I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'

Time Day Thought Evening Enough You

I hated baseball. I really didn't like baseball at all until someone decided they were going to pay me... Every year I played in the big leagues, the day the season ended, I called my buddies in West Virginia and said, 'I'll be home tomorrow.'

Home Day Baseball Tomorrow Me Year

Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.

Hobby Always Mine Been Huge

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

People Story Talking Kind Years

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

Michael Crawford

Love Best Compassion Words Think

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

Accountability Person Embarrassment

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.

Friend Man Sacrifice You Wrong Keep

I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.

Future Book Television Argument Know

This is a global economy. If you're not at the bargaining table, if you don't get an agreement, someone else does.

Someone You Table Economy Agreement

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

Michael Ondaatje

Responsibility Story Out Get Writer

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