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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A while ago, I did a television adaptation of 'Bleak House,' and the character I played, as far as I was concerned, had no redeeming features whatsoever. I wasn't about to try to find any; I didn't need to.
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I can be the best light-middleweight in the world.
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Many kids think unless they go to one of these great Ivy League schools, which I was lucky enough to go to later, that they won't get the same kind of learning. But I learned just the opposite lesson; that my best teachers were not at Harvard University.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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Wonderful things happen when you turn 50: you change perspective. You ask, 'Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What have I not done that I want to do?'
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Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
