C. S. Lewis Quotes
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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I don't read books.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.
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Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
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In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.
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I realized all the writing I love lives in the gray area.
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With three boys in the house, my mother was always on us when growing up about keeping our faces clean, washing behind our ears, and brushing our teeth. So I still take my morning routine seriously.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
