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.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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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.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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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.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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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.
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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.
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Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
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While I was growing up in Flushing, Queens, we socialized exclusively with other Chinese immigrants. I was forbidden to make contact with nonapproved, non-Chinese peers outside school. That was fine with me.
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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
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I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.
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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
