Jeffrey Lurie Quotes
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I've had death threats, if you can imagine.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
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Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.
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A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
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Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
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My only experience with American things is through movies.
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The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
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I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
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I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else.
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I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.
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That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.
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Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
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There's a fundamental tension that is hard to overcome, that what's wholesome is not convenient and vice versa.
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Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.
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The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.
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He was, after all, a diplomat, and understood that the best and firmest deals are based on open self-interest.
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The head coach is the chemist.
