C. S. Lewis Quotes
It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.
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It wasn't that the teachers were bad. From what I can remember, they were pretty good. It was about the selection of books. It was about not seeing my young life reflected back to me: my family dynamics, the noise and complexities of my neighborhood, the things I loved, like ice cream trucks and Kool-Aid.
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My dream right now is - and I don't know how to do it, and I don't know if it will work exactly - but just this sort of vague aspiration to start some kind of website where people send in their stories or poems, and me or perhaps some other people turn that into music. And then by the end of the year we make a record and actually put it out. Like a band, but the band is actually a combination of the musician and the fan. I think that's a very 21st-century way of doing it.
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It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.
