Christopher Logue Quotes
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.
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If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.
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Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
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I want Barack Obama for president. I love Obama. I call Palin the helicopter huntress from hell! I want my children to have a wonderful future, and it's disturbing when I look around. Americans aren't very well-liked. A likable president would be a great start.
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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.
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An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.
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Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.
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People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.
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To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
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Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.
