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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For us, we are interested in doing what's cool for us and what's cool for the audience. That's it.
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There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could harness the courage of our pioneers to settle the American west, which is why President Abraham Lincoln passed a Homestead Act giving a tract of land to anyone seeking a stake in our growing economy.
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When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill.
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When people have a MakerBot, they have a different mindset from everybody else who grew up as a consumer. Instead of thinking, 'I need to go buy that,' they first think, 'Do I need to go buy that? I could just MakerBot that.'
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Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
