C. S. Lewis Quotes
The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.
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Part of courage is simple consistency.
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If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.
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I think any time you increase focus, increase speed, all those are going to help any business.
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In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.
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I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.
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The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.
