Ian Lustick Quotes
Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
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At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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Pray for me! and what noise soever ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me.
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The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
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Only time will tell. We feel like we have good players. We brought Moose in, we brought Fred Miller in on offence...
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
