C. S. Lewis Quotes
We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
J. G. Ballard
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
P. J. O'Rourke
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
Taylor Hanson Hanson
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
R. Kelly
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
Daniel Bruhl
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
Nastia Liukin
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
Edmund Phelps
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
Nancy Kress
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
Samuel Daniel
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I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
Karen Duffy
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
Felicity Kendal
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
Laura Bell Bundy
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I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' delivers both.
Adam Cohen
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Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.
Chilon of Sparta
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Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.
L. Ron Hubbard
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I've been making the recordings for a long time, and I have tons and tons of them. I'm like a digital hoarder or something - everything is on like hard drives and whatever.
Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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As a kid, I can't remember having anything to play with except a loose tooth. And that wasn't mine. It was my brother's.
S. Truett Cathy
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We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.
C. S. Lewis