C. S. Lewis Quotes
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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People used to think of me as a comedy actor.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
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I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
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The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.
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I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.
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I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.
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I connect music to the emotions that come from relationships, so most of the songs that I write are inspired by those circumstances, emotions, feelings, all that kind of stuff.
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This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous. It is in that thought that we collect ourselves, Out of all the indifferences, into one thing
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We Americans choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.
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I do not choose to choose what I choose.
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The Bitchun Society had all but done away with any sort of dull, repetitious labor, and what remained-tending bar, mopping toilets-commanded Whuffie aplenty and a life of leisure in your off-hours.
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I eat a lot of ice - isn't that ridiculous? I chew on ice, and I have maybe two diet sodas a day.
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I let him strain for a couple of seconds. Then like taking candy from a baby, I flipped his arm over and cracked his knuckles on the top of the table. It was strictly no contest and he knew it. But he had to try again. Same results.
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The most joyful part of writing, for me, is when I am 90% there, and suddenly the story clicks into place, and things finally start to make sense.
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We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
