C. S. Lewis Quotes
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.C. S. Lewis
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
Laura Esquivel -
A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
Patrick Leahy -
My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
Kapil Sibal -
I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
Ziggy Marley -
Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
Gary Gygax -
I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
Ted Sarandos
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
Natalie Gulbis -
I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
Hailee Steinfeld -
You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
Ice T -
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
Gary Zukav -
As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
Ira Sachs
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
Carlos Mesa -
I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.
Samantha Stosur -
Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.
Nadia Comaneci -
I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.
G-Eazy -
In Bollywood, you have to do one film at a time, and there are no mixed schedules. And doing four films at a time is out of the question. Telugu film industry works very differently. But the kind of films I'm getting here are better than what I've been offered in Bollywood.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
Yair Lapid
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
Felicia Day -
My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.
Arabella Weir -
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.
Emma Donoghue -
A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.
Thomas A. Edison -
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.
C. S. Lewis