C. S. Lewis Quotes
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.
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We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
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I don't care about having a legacy, I don't care about being remembered. The most important thing to me is, while we're here, while we're having fun, while we're sleeping, breathng oxygen, living life, falling in love, having pain and having joy...what can we do with our voice to make things easier, to help someone to make it better for our kids.
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Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.
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We none of us know our ancestors beyond a little way. We all of us may have kings' blood in our veins.
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The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
