C. S. Lewis Quotes
If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.
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There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.
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There seems to be a theme running through the women I play. They take their circumstances and try to make the best of them.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.
