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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Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?
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I tell my kids and my grandkids, 'Never forget where you came from. Never forget your roots.' My grandkids, they didn't go through the hard times as much as other ones in our family did. One thing is to just never forget where you came from and you never forget that nothing is more important than your relationship with Jesus Christ.
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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
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I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.
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I truly hope readers learn to believe in their imaginations and their ability to shape their own lives. That's what 'The Girl Who Smiled Beads' means to me.
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My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.
