C. S. Lewis Quotes

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

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• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Time
  • Great
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• I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Business
  • Sweet

• Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Good
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• Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Money

• I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Between

• I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.

  

  Washed Out
  • Interesting
  • Child
  • Internet

• By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Up
  • Learning
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• I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Weird
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• I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Me
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• It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Change
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• You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
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• I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Time
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• Under the tropic is our language spoke,And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

  

  Edmund Waller

• Before 1959, some Americans saw Cuba as something to exploit, ignored poverty, enabled corruption. And since 1959, we’ve been shadow-boxers in this battle of geopolitics and personalities. I know the history, but I refuse to be trapped by it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Poverty
  • Shadow

• Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Hope

• As under cover of departing Day Slunk hunger-stricken Ramazan away, Once more within the Potter's house alone I stood, surrounded by the Shapes of Clay.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • House
  • Alone

• It's the nature of an actor to have to use sense memory.

  

  Anjelica Huston
  • Nature

• They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there will still be no conventional war.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • War

• Nothing changes overnight unless you win an Oscar. You move up a little bit, but you are always a little fish - just in a slightly bigger pond.

  

  Chloe Pirrie
  • Up

• Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Religion
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• In 1990, about 1 percent of American corporate profits were taken in tax havens like the Cayman Islands. By 2002, it was up to 17 percent, and it'll be up to 20-25 percent very quickly. It's a major problem. Fundamentally, we have a tax system designed for a national, industrial, wage economy, which is what we had in the early 1900s. We now live in a global, asset-based, services world. And we need to have a tax system that follows the economic order or it's going to interfere with economic growth, it's going to reduce people's incomes, and it's going to damage the US.

  

  David Cay Johnston
  • World
  • Problem
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• I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

  

  C. S. Lewis