C. S. Lewis Quotes
I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
Quintilian
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
Olesya Rulin
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
Ursula Burns
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
Samuel Goldwyn
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
A. S. Byatt
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
Halima Aden
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
Barbara Castle
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
Bashar al-Assad
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
Uzo Aduba
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
Zig Ziglar
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
Larry Niven
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
Dale Earnhardt
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
Dan Jenkins
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
Owen Benjamin
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When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let me just say in passing that it has been my experience that most people who fall out of the Church do so because they were not in far enough.
Marvin J. Ashton
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Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.
Lee Kuan Yew
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I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.
Donnie Yen
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I don't think it's completely better. I still have to do annoying things sometimes and explain things that I don't feel I have to [about LGBT].
Rashard Bradshaw
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I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
C. S. Lewis