John Lurie Quotes
I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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I think every player wants to be acknowledged for what they have done. I think every player eligible for the Hall Of Fame feels that the ultimate validation is enshrinement.
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We ask each other about it in the coach's room every day. What do you think is going to happen? Nobody knows anything. All I know is Lou's got a contract for next year, and all the coaches have contracts, too.
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There'll always be that prep in me that I can't seem to get rid of.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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My mind was so geared towards being a performing artist, singing all these classical pieces, but the sense of loneliness I got when I moved from New York to El Paso meant that writing turned into singing. I'd sing all these songs, and they'd make me feel better. Songs that crafted the way my life was going to go.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
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I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.
