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 dissolve in trust, I will sing with joy, I will end up dust". The line really spoke to me. That's what it is: Enjoy what you have here. You're not going to be here forever, but the songs stay forever. For me, it's like Bowie songs - they carry me, and they continue to, even though he's gone.
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I think that President [Dwight] Eisenhower was... did the most marvelous job in the war, not really a military job: a public relations job, and it was essential that there should be a public relations job done in the post that he had.
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I think you think that phone sex is about getting the caller off, but it's about keeping the caller on. It's about leading with your personality and making sure that they're still listening to you and that they're still interested in you because you cannot make money when they hang up.
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Venial sin becomes mortal sin when one approves it as an end. . .
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Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
