C. S. Lewis Quotes
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.
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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.
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That's one thing you learn as a quarterback: focus. The better you are at focusing and the more you can continue to stay focused for a four-hour stage and really be zeroed in on what is happening, the better you play, the longer you play.
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If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.
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I love New York. It's my favorite city in the world.
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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks
