C. S. Lewis Quotes
To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.
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How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.
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Vision without execution is daydreaming.
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I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.
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Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.
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To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
