C. S. Lewis Quotes

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

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• Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
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• But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

  

  Laura Innes
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• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

  Kat Dennings
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• I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
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• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
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• I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
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• Vegetarians in general don't like me.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Own
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• I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

  

  Fiona Shaw
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  • Night
  • Enjoy

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
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• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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  • Invite

• Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Community
  • Heaven
  • Step

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Wisdom
  • Unique
  • Sharing

• I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.

  

  Ian Anderson
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• For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.

  

  Patrick Kane
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  • Team
  • Me

• I like to have my hair grow, because I need to have hair for different roles. But I'm a woman, so I'm always cutting my hair off and wishing that I hadn't.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Different
  • Hair
  • Cutting

• 'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • God
  • Men

• No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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  • Purpose

• If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining.

  

  Powers Boothe
  • Wall

• I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)

  

  John Ruskin
  • Photographs
  • Sculpture
  • Acid

• There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Universe
  • Religion