C. S. Lewis Quotes

The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

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• Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

  

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• Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

  

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• No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

  

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• Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.

  

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• Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

  

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• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

  

  Yolandi Visser
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• As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.

  

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• I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.

  

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• We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

  

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• I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

  

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• I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

  

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• If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

  

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• I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.

  

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• When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.

  

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• I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.

  

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• We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

  

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• As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.

  

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• My first job was as a waitress, and I waitressed for a long, long time. I was a very bad waitress. I didn't care if people had ketchup or if they were allergic to fish. It really didn't bother me either way. I didn't care. I was bad, but it was a good way to make money. And it's a fun job if you are working with fun people.

  

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• Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!

  

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• It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

  

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  • Character
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• The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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