C. S. Lewis Quotes
He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.
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I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
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We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
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He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.
