Lionel Blue Quotes
Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.
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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
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I am a Republican because the United States is a republic, and the views we hold represent the foundation our country was built on so many years ago.
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I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were too plump and busty looked like little sausages.
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There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.
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Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.
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I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.
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When I first joined the team, I was playing with the likes of Mia Hamm, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett - all those big-time players. It was very intimidating. I had some of these players' posters on my wall growing up, and now I was able to play with them.
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No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.
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Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
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Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.
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I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.
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Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.
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“Hey, it’s a bird!” a voice said from the darkness just as Patricia reached the ground. “Come here, bird. I only want to bite you.
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A questioner asks: If human nature is evil, then where do ritual and rightness come from? I reply: ritual and rightness are always created by the conscious activity of the sages.
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Livy says when her mama and papa are happy she hears them jumping on the bed at night. Are you going to jump on the bed?
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Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.
