C. S. Lewis Quotes
This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
Pat Summitt
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
Barbara Cartland
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
Rachel Gibson
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
Finn Jones
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
Carli Lloyd
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Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
Patricia Heaton
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
Natalie Cole
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
Parker Posey
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
Zac Efron
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
Hanya Yanagihara
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
G. Willow Wilson
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
Mahesh Babu
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
Wadah Khanfar
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba
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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
Yelena Baturina
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
Naveen Jain
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
Olga Kurylenko
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
B. B. King
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Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date.
Hilary Mantel
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This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
C. S. Lewis