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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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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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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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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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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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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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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Friends are not made, but recognized.
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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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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.
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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
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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.
