Lionel Blue Quotes
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
Quotes to Explore
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it, to the point that not only did I change parties, I decided to do something about it and run for Congress.
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We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
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I was a pretty difficult teenager.
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.
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You can't help but be in awe of the athletic abilities of the WWE Superstars.
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To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
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Nobody has milked one performance better than me – and I'm damned proud of it.
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In our family, we've always been owned by border collies, or dogs of one kind or another, and have rescued many dogs. We've lived in the woods and sometimes have had as many as 70 sled dogs. Or had six or seven dogs living in the house. Dogs have saved my life on more than one occasion - and I mean that literally.
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I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
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My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
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I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.
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Thug: This is a stickup! Now come on. Your money or your life.
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I bow my head to the love shown by the public in Vadodara. Each voter worked like Narendra Modi. You completed a very big responsibility.
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Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.
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We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.
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I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.
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Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
