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.
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In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
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Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
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I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.
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Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"
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There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'
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Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself, and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy.
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You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.
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A design that doesn’t take change into account risks major redesign in the future.
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An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
