C. S. Lewis Quotes
In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.C. S. Lewis
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
Katey Sagal -
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler -
We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
Vanna Bonta -
I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
Zach Anner -
I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
Gabriella Wilde -
The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
Dan Shechtman
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
Fiona Apple -
At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen -
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
Ian McShane -
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
Salman Rushdie -
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
E. Franklin Frazier
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
Garry Shandling -
I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
Larry Brown -
The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
Sam Graves -
Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
Gary Sherman -
Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
Adam Grant -
How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
W. H. Davies
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A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.
Zephyr Teachout -
I find television to be a bit like a meat grinder. It's like, you have a cow, you put it through a meat grinder, and out comes a hot dog. It's almost unrecognizable.
Jillian Michaels -
Baseball continues, life continues, and I have to continue to work.
Carlos Ruiz -
I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.
Samantha Bond -
In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.
P. J. O'Rourke -
In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
C. S. Lewis