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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Service is the rent we pay for living.
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Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself.
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If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.
