Lionel Blue Quotes
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
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I'm building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a 'Star Wars' project. My life goal is to have a character in the 'Star Wars' universe, film or other media. I just want to go to my grave knowing I played some character or some character based on my likeness was part of that world.
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It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I really believe that I've been a better parent from being a working mother.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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Miramax wanted the buzz to spread, but slowly, so people would be clamoring for it, ... Chicago.
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Do you clean yourself before you take a bath?
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I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like, 'A vegetarian's coming to dinner,' so they serve those.
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Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
