C. S. Lewis Quotes
While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
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My songs are about who I am.
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It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
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I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!
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I grew up playing basketball and eating hot dogs on the corner.
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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
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While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.
