Gary Lucas Quotes

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

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• The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Future
  • Way
  • Religious

• The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Real
  • Me
  • Balance

• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Long
  • Way
  • Film

• In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Way
  • General
  • Microscope

• Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Family
  • Way
  • Existence

• I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.

  

  Forrest Mars, Jr.
  • Man
  • Way
  • Religious

• Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Up
  • Way
  • Treat

• It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Way
  • Advice
  • Shopping

• Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Way
  • Purpose
  • Natural

• The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.

  

  Usher
  • Way
  • You
  • Know

• Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Way
  • Humor
  • Incredible

• I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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  • Day
  • Where

• I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Way
  • Others

• I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.

  

  Victoria Moran
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  • See
  • Mountain

• As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Rest
  • First

• When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Feeling
  • Community
  • Talk

• Only votes talk, everything else walks.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Everything
  • Talk
  • Only

• Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Men
  • Fall
  • Dark

• It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

  

  Socrates
  • People
  • Young
  • Authority

• To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

  

  Gary Lucas
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