“Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.” ThinkingI CanPlayMinesMediumsPhrasesSoloGigs Author:John Abercrombie
“If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.” IfsConsciousnessUnconsciousness Author:John Abercrombie
“But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.” PeopleEnoughFeelingsConversationGood Enough Author:John Abizaid
“It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.” PeopleInterestActingHeardEnglandResponsibleBritishLondonRussiaShockAlliesSovietSoviet Russia Author:John Amery
“But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.” EndsPracticeEconomicDesignEnvironmentalObjectivesTradingUnhealthy Author:John Anderson
“It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.” ImportantRememberLeftCallingTerroristCompareTyrantsSyndromes Author:John Avlon
“I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.” YearsFirstsBelieveHas BeensLeftI BelievePartyResponsibilityInsaneAdministrationActivistGoverningIdeologues Author:John Avlon
“There are the countries of the north of Europe taking decisions and the countries of the south of Europe that are living under intervention. This division exists.” CountryDecisionEuropeSouthDivisionIntervention Author:Jose Maria Aznar
“There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.” ThinkingWorldWayCountryGroupsThis WorldComfortCostBuying Author:Jose Maria Aznar
“I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.” MenGrowsQuietAdversityQuiet Man Author:Jose Maria Aznar