C. S. Lewis Quotes
I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.
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I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
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When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun.
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An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.
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I've taken great pride in not being fragile.
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If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year.
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I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.
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Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a 'bad' one.
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We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.
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I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.
