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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If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.
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I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.
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These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.
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I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.
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We hear lots of stories where grandparents go to a store and buy a smartphone so they can keep in touch with kids and grandkids.
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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?
