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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I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!
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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 never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
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I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.
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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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When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn't cry like that.
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You not only do you appreciate the sacrifices people have made and the hours they've kept and the soccer games they missed and the birthday parties, but I also had a lot of young people who came in here [to White House], and this probably, you know, echoes with you, in your own experience, you were young when you got here.
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I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere.
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I do know the Bible very well from a Protestant point of view - which is what, along with my reason, entitles me to refute it. You can't rationally reject something until you know all about it.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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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?
