C. S. Lewis Quotes
There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.
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I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
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If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
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All I do is watch dance videos. I love Ricky Ubeda, who is a contemporary dancer, and I also love Madison Cubbage. They inspire me to work harder every day.
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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
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Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'
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Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.
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There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you don't want to - I think most political poetry is very bad. And it's very bad because you know too much to start with. You have a sense that you're right, and you're trying to tell other people what's right. And I think that's always kind of fundamentalism, and I don't like it.
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Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding
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The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up dying. So she bought her defiance with her death. The real question I ended up asking was, "What would it mean for Antigone to have stood up to Creon and lived?" And the only way she could have lived is if she had had a serious social movement with her. If she arrived with a social movement to take down the despot, maybe it would have taken 18 days only, like in Egypt. It's really important to be able to re-situate one's rage and destitution in the context of a social movement.
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There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.
