C. S. Lewis Quotes
Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again
Quotes to Explore
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.
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I work with people who come up with an idea and people throw money at it. They say, "Geeze, can I give you some money? Can I get a piece of that?" So, if your concept is good everything else becomes much easier. If your concept is unclear, then everything else is harder
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.
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Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
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Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again
