C. S. Lewis Quotes
That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.
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People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.
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The reality is that I always envisioned the 'Riddick' franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.
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There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
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There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this 'out of the dark' story, like, 'I used to be insecure, but now here I am.' But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn't their reality, either.
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I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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Thought makes reality.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
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For real change to take place, the body needs to learn that the danger has passed and to live in the reality of the present.
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People bang on all the time about whether what I've done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just a series of elaborate fictions.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
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That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.
