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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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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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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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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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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The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.
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Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state – admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological – in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.
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If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.
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My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.
