C. S. Lewis Quotes

If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

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• I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

  

  Victoria Abril
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• Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.

  

  Kate Moss
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• Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

  

  Dan Webster
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• It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.

  

  Maggie Hassan
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• I'm still learning my craft.

  

  Yann Martel
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• Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'

  

  Edith Head
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• As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • World
  • Live
  • Words

• The muses visit when I'm lonely.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Lonely
  • Visit
  • Muses

• For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.

  

  Kage Baker
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  • Film
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• 'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Great
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• Business today consists in persuading crowds.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Business
  • Today
  • Persuading

• I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.

  

  Gavin Andresen
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• I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Never
  • New

• There are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country - drawing welfare benefits, sending their children to public schools, and pushing down wages for American workers - but the problem extends well beyond amnesty and open borders.

  

  Sam Graves
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  • Children
  • American

• To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Nature

• But it can make you feel over, and old (Lord, you know it's a shame), when I only want for you to pull over, and hold me,till I can't remember my own name.

  

  Joanna Newsom
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• Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that in college. Now, I'm having to learn to be patient and be where I am.

  

  Danielle Brooks
  • Time
  • Business
  • Career

• My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Kids
  • Beginning
  • Son

• If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

  

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