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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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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Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judge at all of where that is.
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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.
