C. S. Lewis Quotes
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.
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With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.
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Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Compromise, hell! That's what happened to us all down the line - and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
