C. S. Lewis Quotes
A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.
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You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.
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I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.
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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.
