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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How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
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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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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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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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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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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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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
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We want full-scale normalisation of relations [with Japan].
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If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.
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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.
