F. L. Lucas Quotes
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world.
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Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
