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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Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
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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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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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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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The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.
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How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.
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We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
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The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.
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Women, who on grounds of modesty alone might be expected to prefer being killed or cured by one of their own sex, prove as incalculable in this as in most other things;
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Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
