C. S. Lewis Quotes
But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.
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My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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I love my iPhone - I've actually gotten into games, and I find them really relaxing. Don't laugh at me, but I have 'Sally's Spa' - fantastic; 'Penguin Catapult' - it's great; and 'Word Solitaire' is my new favorite.
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When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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Only men of character are trusted.
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There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.
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I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.
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Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
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It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.
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In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special genre.
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The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
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But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.
