Lionel Blue Quotes
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
Lionel Blue
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I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.
Padgett Powell
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We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
Patricia Ireland
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Good wine needs no bush,And perhaps products that people really want need nohard-sell or soft-sell TV push.Why not?Look at pot.
Ogden Nash
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All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in infering that he is an inexact man.
Bertrand Russell
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes … have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.
Marcel Proust
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People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
Mario Cuomo
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My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
Victoria Abril
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I look at all good things with a bit of a dark lens, I suppose, especially with something like love.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.
Marvin Hamlisch
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Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
Lionel Blue