John Lurie Quotes
My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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I don't really go out at all.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.
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Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
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I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.
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My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.
