Lionel Blue Quotes
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
Quotes to Explore
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I was brought up as a normal kid.
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.
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If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
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Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can arouse their interest.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
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To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when the book world was in distress, offering a vital new source of sales.
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As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
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We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say that it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.
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For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
