Lionel Blue Quotes
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
Quotes to Explore
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But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
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People take things so seriously.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Hopeless of all he dared to hope so long, The music born within him dies away; Even the song he loved becomes a pain, Full-freighted with a yearning all in vain.
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I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.
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A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.
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Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.
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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
