Lewis B. Smedes Quotes
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.
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All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.
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Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.
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By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.
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It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
