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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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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I admire people who are completely at ease with themselves. But I don't have that feeling.
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I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person.
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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
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There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.
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The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient
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Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.'
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Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.
