C. S. Lewis Quotes
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
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Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.
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I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.
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I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.
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Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
