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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It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.
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Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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Like a lot of business owners out there, I don't desire to face the continual flogging from government regulators who push burdensome and confusing state tax and employment laws on the business. It creates an unnecessary risk when, as an owner, I can just take it offshore.
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Who God is and what it is to be divine is something we have to learn where God has revealed Himself and His nature, the essence of the divine.
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I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
