Eric Van Lustbader Quotes
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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The core of my personality consists of many selves.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?
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Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.
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I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
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I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.
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There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.
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Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. That's what change looks like.
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My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.
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Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.
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I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.
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Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.
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I remember when A love Supreme was released - I heard it at a friends house. ... Man it was incredible. That record sounded different than the rest. I was trying to gather my spirituality together, trying to get an understanding of life ..... I felt Coltrane was the first musician who made a transition from one side to the other.
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How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits? Criminals must be told that their CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS!
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Keep your friends close, Sun-Tzu had written. Your enemies closer.