Charles Williams Quotes
Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.
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A free trade agreement can be a win-win for E.U. and India.
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Legacy does matter to me, and I want to leave a good one in MMA.
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I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.
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I've learned you can always achieve more than you thought you could. There are moments when I've walked off the court, and I'm like, 'I don't know how I won that match.' It was actually impossible, but it happened, and then you realize that you can push yourself much further than you ever thought, and you can make the impossible happen.
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
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My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.
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The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
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The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.
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I was expecting Pop Bassett to give an impersonation of a bomb falling on an ammunition dump, but he didn’t. Instead, he continued to exhibit that sort of chilly stiffness which you see in magistrates when they’re fining people five quid for boyish peccadilloes.
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They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
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One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
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The gods help them that help themselves.
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You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.
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I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.
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Semi-automatic rifles, like semi-automatic handguns, have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens for self-defense in the home, hunting, and other lawful uses.
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When I was little, I went to a Catholic school and was required to go to church every morning and with my parents on Sundays, so I spent a lot of time sitting on a wooden pew. Angels are sort of a relief. If you're looking around, the other imagery is so dark and heavy. Looking at the beautifully rendered pictures of angels was more uplifting.
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Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.
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I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.
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Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.
