C. S. Lewis Quotes
The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little.
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I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'
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Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has arisen because parents have failed to transmit a sustaining faith to their children. The basic reason for this failure is that the parents themselves lacked faith. Without faith, their love was an image not a reality, a statement of words not an expression of feelings
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The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.
