John Lurie Quotes
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
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I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.
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I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.
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My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
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Before I came to Bollywood, lot of people told me that here things are not very professional, but I've had no such experience.
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.
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All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.
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You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.
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We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
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The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.
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A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
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I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me
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A house isn't really understandable until it settles into the site: until it's built, furnished and lived in for four or five years. The reality is not on paper but in how a building sits on the land - how it relates to trees, to slopes, to water, to gardens.
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Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.
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Acting scares me.
