C. S. Lewis Quotes
Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.
Quotes to Explore
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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The body is our general medium for having a world.
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Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself.
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Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.
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I've just never cared what people think. It's more if I'm happy and I'm confident and feeling good, that's always been my thing.
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Was vernünftig ist, das ist Wirklich; und was wirklich ist, das ist vernünftig.
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Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.
