C. S. Lewis Quotes
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.
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As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.
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Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.
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R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.
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You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.
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One thing I really love in my single, 'Just Can't Let You Go,' is the beatboxing; I think it's really cool. Also, in my music, I'm not afraid to say what I want to say. I also think it's relatable for other girls out there.
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I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here.
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I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.
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The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.
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Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.
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I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.
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My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
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Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.
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We spend so much of our lives doing math problems on how to feel good. It's such a waste of time. You're going to feel how you feel. It's hard to just set up a way that you're going to live your life that is going to be just endlessly happy and healthy. That's impossible.
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Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don't have to have the most talent in the world. You don't have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful.
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We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.
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Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.
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A friend of mine back in 1989 did an illegal rave in Vauxhall. He got Keith Haring to come along and tag the side of the wall. My friend cut it out of the wall and he kept it under his bed for 20 years. Then a few years ago he asks me if I want to buy it... so I spent £12,000 on a Keith Haring.
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We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.
