C. S. Lewis Quotes
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The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!
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Congress must seek and find answers when confronted with a situation that represents a possible betrayal of the public trust especially at a time when the people of the Gulf Region need every resource available to recover, ... ...I intend to exert my oversight power to determine how such flagrant abuse could happen and to ensure that Small Business Administration loans truly go to those who need them.
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We aren't hiding anything, ... We're prepared to completely inform the U.N. secretary-general and world community of how things really stand.
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Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.
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The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground of consolation amidst the tremblings of human hope, the fluctuations of creature things, and the instability of all that earth calls good.
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The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.
