Carl Lewis Quotes
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow from it. You just have to try to take what you can from it and then move on to the next phase of your life to be better.
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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
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In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Where there is love there is life.
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You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
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When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good deeds becomes a focal point for our life; doing good begins to be the same as feeling good. The periods of emptiness when we search for the "meaning of it all" begin to fill with acts of kindness.
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Even silence becomes whether we want it or not a statement that is in fact astoundingly presumptuous
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Give time for a worthy cause (with eagerness) - you will be worthy and richly rewarded.
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Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.
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The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.
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Life is about timing.
