C. S. Lewis Quotes
The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found, of whatever kind it may be. We rise to attain it and become removed from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it.
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Of all the created things or beings in the universe, it is the two-legged men alone, who if they purify and humiliate themselves, may become one with - or may know - Wakan-Tanka.
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I am convinced that the enactment this year of tax reduction and tax reform overshadows all other domestic problems in this Congress. For we cannot for long lead the cause of peace and freedom, if we ever cease to set the pace here at home. For we cannot for long lead the cause of peace and freedom, if we ever cease to set the pace here at home.
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You can have the power of your music on your cellphone and reach millions.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.
