C. S. Lewis Quotes
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.
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You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
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The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
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I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm working on bridging the gap between mainstream famous and Internet famous. They're two different things, but eventually, social media will be the way to become a celebrity.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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I'm really into kind of finding different masculine pieces and making them feminine. Like cool oxfords.
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
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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 have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.
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I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.
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Tragedy obviously does not lie in a conflict of Right and Wrong, but in a collision between two different kinds of Right...
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Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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On Christmas Eve, we have a duck or roast pork with caramelised potatoes, braised red cabbage and gravy. For dessert, we have ris a l'amande, a rice pudding, and whoever gets the whole almond in it wins an extra present. Then we dance around the tree and sing carols.
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How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
