Simon Spurr Quotes

What's great is that there are a lot of brands - like Thom Browne, Michael Bastian, and Rag & Bone - but they're all doing their own thing. That's what's important: to remain true to your own DNA.

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke
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  • Liberty
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• When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

  

  Sally Phillips
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  • Child

• Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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  • Simply

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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  • Religion

• One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
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  • Girl
  • Sad

• The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.

  

  Yuna
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  • Interesting

• A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.

  

  Orson Pratt
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  • Man

• I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

  

  O. R. Melling
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  • Early
  • Canada

• You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Women
  • True

• Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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  • True

• It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
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  • Live
  • Art

• Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.

  

  Victor LaValle
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  • Words

• Empirical laws ... have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
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  • Value

• 'Everything is already there in....' How does it come about that an arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - 'No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that.' - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
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• The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government service should pay for it. It's also known as the 'user pay' principle. Every effort should be made to link the payment of taxes or fees to the cost associated with the government service.

  

  Mark Skousen
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• Marc Gasol, he's more of a true center. There are guys who play that traditional center role, but the game is also played differently now.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
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  • Game

• Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

  

  David Hume
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  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• The reason we love nature is because it's fascinating and we love all the creatures, but if you watch any nature film, there's always a lesson: "the creatures are all dying and life sucks." The same is true of literature.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
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  • Nature

• I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

  

  Elizabeth David
  • Friends
  • Kitchen

• I get paid to make out with the hunks!

  

  Kelly Ripa

• My dad has seen and done a lot. He comes from the hippie era where music and living life to the fullest is more important than stability and playing by the rules.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• What's great is that there are a lot of brands - like Thom Browne, Michael Bastian, and Rag & Bone - but they're all doing their own thing. That's what's important: to remain true to your own DNA.

  

  Simon Spurr
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