Stephen Lewis (Stephen Henry Lewis) Quotes

The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

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• I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.

  

  Ian Hecox
  • Funny
  • Care
  • Watches

• What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Long
  • Summer
  • Winter

• If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Different
  • Love

• It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Live
  • Mother

• A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Mind
  • Danger

• When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Couple
  • Process
  • Painful

• I always forbade everyone to clean my studios, dust them, not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on the protection of dust. It's my ally. I always let it settle where it likes. It's like a layer of protection.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Fear

• I'm more like an oven than a microwave.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Microwaves
  • Ovens

• I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all the time in that medium, and people are hungry for it. And I'm as guilty as anyone for being part of an industry that is capitalizing on existing stories, sequels, these things that we are seeing again and again and again.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Time
  • Age

• Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • People
  • Men
  • Practice

• For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people. It was a pretty depressing crowd, very angry and strange people. But then I took a class at the Upright Citizens Brigade and I loved those people.

  

  Zach Woods
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Comedy

• Success is overrated.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Success

• Money talks — but credit has an echo.

  

  Bob Thaves
  • Money
  • Credit
  • Echo

• Common aim is stronger than blood.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff

• I love hosting. I've always really enjoyed making people happy, and so anytime I'm doing anything or the event is doing anything, and I look around and there are smiles on everybody's faces, I feel like I've succeeded in doing something. That's the stuff that I'm most grateful for.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Happy

• There are no uncriminal crimes.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Crime

• I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Me
  • Politics

• In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Theology
  • Sovereign

• The problem in America as far as actors are concerned - and it's probably true in other fields, as well - is that they don't value people who are older or talented. I don't think ability means anything. How much money you have or how much money you can make for them are the only things they seem to care about or understand.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Care

• You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

  

  Nigella Lawson
  • Life
  • Want
  • Chicken

• The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

  

  Stephen Lewis
  • Capacity
  • Ground
  • United Nations