C. S. Lewis Quotes
Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
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Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element of discomfort, but there also is a level of stability because you are voluntarily accepting pain. It gives you a sense of confidence.
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It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
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The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.
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There are 1.3 billion people today who have no access to electricity. Many of them rely on kerosene lanterns for light, but kerosene is both expensive and hazardous to the health.
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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
