C. S. Lewis Quotes
The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
Quotes to Explore
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
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I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
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I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.
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I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn't have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape.
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I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.
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Actors don't have real value.
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The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
