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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We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.
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But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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In a world tainted by hate and negativity, stand out, shine bright and always be proud of who you are
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I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
