C. S. Lewis Quotes
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
Quotes to Explore
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good. When you look at something that's really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.
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I think safely experiencing fear by watching a horror movie makes real life a little less frightening.
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When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life skill all people should learn.
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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
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The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally - like, when you've even played a recorder, or whatever, it becomes a lot easier to hear the beauty in a bird's song, or the quiet tune in a gentle rustle of the wind.
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
