C. S. Lewis Quotes
Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.
Quotes to Explore
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rather than what's good for individuals.
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When I got to MIT, I discovered a really interesting Master's program called the Science and Technology and Policy Program - it taught people with a background in STEM how to think about science and tech from a policy perspective. It was a great way to understand how to communicate science to a policymaker or a layperson.
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We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.
