Lionel Blue Quotes
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Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
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You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!
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You can't get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that's something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I'll be able to show it to my kids. I'll be walking around Disneyland, and it'll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.
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By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.
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If you come on my property, I've got you from the second that you enter on. There's little lasers... my TVs come on in my room and fall just right on you. So, there's no way to sneak up on me. And I've got a loud dog.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
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I just like the themes it's exploring. In the way my character says, 'I want us to become brothers again, like we used to be.' I really like that line, and it means a lot to me. I just find there's a lot of things like that in this movie that have that feeling. There's stuff that feels exhilarating.
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'Have you ever seen Spode eat asparagus?'No.'Revolting. It alters one's whole conception of Man as Nature's last word.'
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Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead:-The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.
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I need to be more aggressive, more vocal, be a better defender. I've worked on all those tirelessly.
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Give it your best shot. Go for it. If it's what you really want to do, go for it. Even if you don't make it, you will never look back and have regrets. You can always say, "Hey, I went for it. I tried my hardest. It was an awesome experience."
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Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.
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The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of Buddhism to myself, that, if it weren't for certain qualifying clauses, the philosophy would be downright suicidal.
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Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.
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I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
