Lionel Blue Quotes

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

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• Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Together
  • Marriage
  • Problems

• Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Graduation

• Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Conflict
  • Dollar

• Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Human

• What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Food
  • Generosity

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Work
  • Long
  • War

• I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Kids
  • Out
  • Five

• I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Home
  • Guy
  • Relationship

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Design
  • Hollywood
  • Credit

• Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Easy

• I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Feel
  • Find
  • Act

• I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Education
  • Like
  • Follow

• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Joke

• When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • World
  • City
  • Myself

• I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Fighting
  • Beach
  • Routine

• I have found that so many directors and producers in the room say nothing, and this can be deadly. It's very difficult to audition for comedy in the vacuum of a small room, but it's the only way most do it.

  

  Allison Jones
  • Small
  • Comedy

• In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Together
  • Political

• I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms.

  

  James Redfield
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

  

  John Ruskin
  • God
  • May
  • Small

• I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

  

  Lionel Blue
  • May
  • Experience
  • Society