Richard Lewis Quotes
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
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'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.
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A leader of immense stature who always spoke his mind.
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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
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It's not a flag that I look at with anything favorable. That's for sure, ... I can't tell people what flag to fly.
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Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
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The Bowling Green game was a big-time environment. We wanna see that for all the games.
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Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.
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And so we have one of the great ironies of the early Christian tradition. The profoundly Jewish religion of Jesus and his followers became the viciously anti-Jewish religion of later times, leading to the horrific persecutions of the Middle Ages and the pogroms and attempted genocides that have plagued the world down to recent times.6 Anti-Semitism as it has come down to us today is the history of specifically Christian reactions to non-Christian Jews. It is one of the least savory inventions of the early church.
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Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.
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Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.
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I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
