C. S. Lewis Quotes
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
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U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.
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Nobody knows what future tax rates will be.
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I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
