Stephen Lewis (Stephen Henry Lewis) Quotes
I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.
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I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
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I wasn't born to be champion - I fought to be champion.
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I think the best projects understand that they don't need to invent a new currency. They don't need to use the block chain as their long-term data storage solution. And they don't need to use the peer-to-peer network as their communication mechanism. They should use the block chain as the world's most secure distributed ledger.
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Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.
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It's better when you don't understand the words in music. Because when you don't understand the words, you have to listen to what somebody means, not what they're saying. And if they mean it.
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Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible about Europeans preening and posing as a great power when they can't even stop some nickel'n'dime Balkan genital-severers piling up hundreds of thousands of corpses on their borders.
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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
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Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily in tiny doses - relinquishing a pointless worry, getting wise to a self-destructive habit, serving notice on a cruel notion about yourself that has previously seemed justified. The beginning of forgiveness is alertness to false ideas.
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Anything you can settle with money is cheap.
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Who am I? What am I? Why am I?
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Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?
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When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.
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I learned how to scuba dive, which is something that I've always wanted to do.
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In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I keep it at bay. I don't believe that adults should impose their vision of the world on children, children are very much capable of forming their own visions. There's no need to force our own visions onto them.
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I've served on the International Relations Committee.
