C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me."
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Because I Can
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Sadie Frost
Actress
"I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else."
Robert Smith
Musician
"I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me."
Fredi Washington
Actress
"I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified with the race."
Stuart Scott
Sports Journalist, Broadcaster
"I can't ever give up, because I can't ever leave my daughters."
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"I pray because I can't help myself."
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"I don't wanna need you because I can't have you."
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"I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy."
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"I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic."
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"Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person."
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"I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul."
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"I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile."
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"I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you."
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"I like to act because I can forget about everything else."
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"I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music."
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"I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change."
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"...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it."
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"Nothing is staged exactly as it was, because I can't remember - and I consider that an advantage."
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"If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing."
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