C. Day Lewis Quotes
We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.
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God is the water, and you are the faucet.
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For the love of God, will someone please punch me in the face so I can see some stars?
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This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real thing, since, though associations of pleasant or painful musings can attach it for a time to a woman to the extent of making us believe that it has been inspired by her in a logically necessary way, if on the other hand we detach ourselves deliberately or unconsciously from those associations, this love, as though it were in fact spontaneous and sprang from ourselves alone, will revive in order to bestow itself on another woman.
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We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.
