C. S. Lewis Quotes
Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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My daughter will find some of the sweetest words to tell you that can make a grown man cry. She still gives me the same inspiration. She still motivates me.
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Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.
