Luke Ford Quotes
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I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.
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Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.
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I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.
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I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.
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I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.
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I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.
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With 'The Mummy' it was a fantasy action adventure. You get taken away for a few hours and come out and feel revamped and ready to go into the world and enjoy your next day at work.
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I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.
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Even after we compensated for confounding factors like family history of depression, coffee drinking, or their year in medical school, we still came out with a very clear change in risk.
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At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.
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At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.
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My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
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You don't want one teacher going up against another because money's going to be out there.
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Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.
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I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.
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I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.
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Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.
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In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.