C. S. Lewis Quotes

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

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• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

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• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

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• Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

  

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• Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'

  

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• I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.

  

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• When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
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• I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.

  

  Rachel Stevens
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• My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

  

  Vernon Wells
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• Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

  

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• I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

  

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• In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

  

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• I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

  

  Kate Millett
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• Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
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• A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.

  

  Olivia Culpo
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• When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.

  

  Zach Woods
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• Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to say to today's audience, in particular the young people who enjoy my plays. That's the best I could hope for, that the plays aren't single-use products of one era.

  

  Vaclav Havel
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• It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • Thinking
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• Music has always been really important to me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
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• A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • People
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• As long as our user base continues to grow, at some point it will have critical mass, and at some point it will tip, and at some point, people will just have to use WhatsApp because their friends are using WhatsApp.

  

  Jan Koum
  • People
  • Long
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• The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Devil
  • Adversity