Lionel Blue Quotes

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

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• Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Great
  • Freedom

• In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Bad
  • Thought
  • Year

• I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Always
  • Childhood

• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Dog

• It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Country
  • Found
  • Fantastic

• I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and the Beast' oil paintings. So it's been an ongoing wonderful job.

  

  Paige O'Hara
  • Work
  • Job
  • Beauty

• We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Men
  • Women
  • Job

• I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Man
  • Respect

• Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Way
  • Best
  • Try

• Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

  

  Ice T
  • Happy
  • Hip Hop
  • Sounds

• I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Away

• Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Gym

• Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Thanks

• I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Like
  • Feels

• You know, I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Tough

• There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • Poetry

• So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long

• Let's go!

  

  Yuri Gagarin

• I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

  

  Michael Tippett
  • Interest
  • Made

• The harder I practiced, the luckier I got.

  

  Gary Player
  • Practiced
  • Luckier

• An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

  

  Lionel Blue