James Lileks Quotes - Page 2

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• Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.

  James Lileks

  Cells, Politics, Best Place

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• The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions.

  James Lileks

  Forever, Mind, Contradiction

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• If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention.

  James Lileks

  Thinking, Attention, 80s

  James Lileks (2004). “Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible 70's”, Crown Pub

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• If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems.

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  Mother, Ivory, Juniors

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• The popular Arab imagination is a pliant and inventive thing; it can explain any defeat. It is a compass that always points toward the Jew.

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  Imagination, Defeat, Compass

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• The International Criminal Court, like most international institutions, is a wonderful idea. A noble idea. All it needs to work is planetary government, worldwide democracy and the triumph of reason over tribal loyalties, political doctrines and individual ambition. In other words, it requires that we all live in the world described by the "Star Trek" television shows.

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  Loyalty, Stars, Ambition

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• So now we're after a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a guy-and-gal thing. To the founders, this would have been like an amendment requiring the sun to rise in the east; it would fall under the category of obvious truths that the Constitution need not address.

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  Fall, Guy, East

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• Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.

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  Heart, People, Free Will

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• You can imagine what the advisers are telling Junior Assad: "Your statues are much stronger than Saddam's. His were hollow, and bolted in place with inferior metal; yours are solid, and are anchored to a depth of three feet. Let the American tanks come! Their gears will strip and their engines whine in defeat as they attempt to pull down your statues!

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  Feet, Stronger, Tanks

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• And I don't want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when Saddam showed up waving stacks of Francs in exchange for bang-sticks.

  James Lileks

  Country, Years, Bangs

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• From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.

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  Gum, Politics, Hull

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• I regret that after 30 years of writing columns in this market, including ten with this newspaper that I love very much, this local conversation has come to an end. However, I believe that if the newspapers of the country pool their resources, we can send an Arnold-Schwartzenegger-style robot back in time to kill the inventor of the Internet, and then our future will be much brighter.

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  Country, Regret, Believe

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• When liberal celebs stammer out a litany of shopworn bleats about the administration's attempt to turn America into a theocratic prison state, people can't help but notice that these buskers and mummers seem unmoved by the horrors of actual prison states. (Saddam commissioned a copy of the Quran written in his own blood - but John Ashcroft is the real religious nut, don't you know.)

  James Lileks

  Religious, Real, Blood

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• The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax breaks to companies like Enron." True - although the bill allowed all companies to accelerate depreciation of copying machines. Yes, Enron benefited, but Enron also benefited from the revolution of the Earth around the sun. Hardly an argument to freeze the planet in one spot.

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  Lying, Copying, Machines

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• The (campaign) ads all have the same tone - the voice is hushed and amazed when talking about The Enemy, as if you should worry how this amoral, power-mad, extremist puppy-strangler clawed his way out of hell and landed in your district. And the voice is happy and relieved when talking about The Most Noble Candidate, as though he's Santa, Will Rogers and Lincoln all rolled into one.

  James Lileks

  Talking, Voice, Mad

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