C. S. Lewis Quotes
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I cook chicken for a living.
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'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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You have to be able to unleash your inner goofball with me.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
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I have moments of weakness, but mostly I brush the criticism off... Who cares if I'm not a size zero? I don't want to be. I love my body; I'm healthy, I work out.
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The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.
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What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.
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On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me. The very first entry in her FBI file begins in 1924, when Eleanor Roosevelt supports American's entrance into the World Court. And the World Court comes up again and again - '33, '35. In 1935, Eleanor Roosevelt goes on the air; she writes columns; she broadcast three, four times to say the US must join the World Court.
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If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
