Lionel Blue Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
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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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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
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Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
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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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My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.
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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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'Have fun' is my message. Be silly. You're allowed to be silly. There's nothing wrong with it.
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Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit.
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We were brought up watching opening batsmen score nine before lunch. If Geoffrey Boycott flashed at a ball outside off stump in the first over of a Test match, questions were asked in Parliament. If he flashed at two, the ravens abandoned the Tower of London.
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We certainly accomplished a lot this year. We were 6-10 last year, and the facts speak for themselves this year. We got a lot of good things done.
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I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
