C. S. Lewis Quotes
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
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I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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As a CEO, you get sucked into dealing with all the tasks of being a CEO. There's a big meeting, a big discussion, and you get into all the big issues, which is your job. But what CEOs often lose sight of is that it's all about the people who work for you. For every 1,000 decisions, 999 were being made when I was not in the room.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.
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Only recently has part of America challenged the long-held assumption that America is a Christian nation. Most citizens do not recognize just how quickly we have moved in an anti-Christian direction.
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The Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and justifying this on the grounds that they are being the objects of terrorism, which is true.
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.
