Damian Lewis Quotes
My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
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When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it was like to be on a Russian estate in 1830. You are there. And that is the hope when you sit down and write still, I think - that you can transmit something of what life is like now.
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Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
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Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.
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The French view is really one of balance, I think... What French women would tell me over and over is, it's very important that no part of your life - not being a mom, not being a worker, not being a wife - overwhelms the other part.
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My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.
