C. S. Lewis Quotes
John – I’m trying to find the Island in the West. Sensible – You refer, no doubt to some aesthetic experience.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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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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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
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I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
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All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.
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As the days went on, I didn't mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them. That was the easiest part of all. I couldn't wait to get to the ballpark I'd be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that's why the veterans liked me.
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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.
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John – I’m trying to find the Island in the West. Sensible – You refer, no doubt to some aesthetic experience.
