Lucien Bourjeily Quotes
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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You are never really prepared for criticism.
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
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Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.
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I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet.
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.
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Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.
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Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.
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People react to 'District 9' and Die Antwoord on the same level.
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They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture Pleased that the irrational is rational,Until flicked by feeling, in a gildered street, I call you by name, my green, my fluent mundo.
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'Prison religion'...
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A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.
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We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.
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You always have to look for something beautiful wherever you go.
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Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.
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Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.
