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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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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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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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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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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There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us.
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I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.
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I don't watch a lot of my work. I'm not really interested in seeing it after I do it. Because I came from theater, where, you know, it's impossible to actually review your work, so why would I bother under any other circumstances?
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.
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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.
