C. S. Lewis Quotes

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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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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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
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The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.
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I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.
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I want to be on the pitch, and I want to be cool.
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We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.
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Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.