C. S. Lewis Quotes
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.
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If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
