C. S. Lewis Quotes
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I follow so many beauty bloggers on Instagram.
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I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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The FA Cup is something we want to win, but when you play for Chelsea, it is not something you think about a lot because you want to win every game.
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We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking.
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I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.
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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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I was scouted by this talent scout back home. She found me because I used to make my dad these CDs of my music, and I think that some guy that he worked with had a niece who worked with the talent scout, or something really drawn out, kind of word-of-mouth.
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Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
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I lost my parents when I was fairly young.
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We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
