C. S. Lewis Quotes
Legal and economic equality are absolutely necessary remedies for the Fall, and protection against cruelty.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I never said half the things I said.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.
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I keep in touch with these people who knew me long before I got a record deal.
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I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.
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I hope everyone wakes up and appreciates life.
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The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity , with no possibilities; its relations, with no subjects, make me feel as if I had entered into a contract with no reserved rights ... It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak for the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides.
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Legal and economic equality are absolutely necessary remedies for the Fall, and protection against cruelty.
