Simon Spurr Quotes
To make a perfect t-shirt is hard - all you have is white cotton and fit. that's where experience comes in.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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I'm very happy alone.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.
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The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
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When we look at a thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, and once we cross the threshold, we must grasp the essence of the thing; this is the only reliable and scientific method of analysis.
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Thy hue, dear pledge, is pure and brightAs in that well-remember'd nightWhen first thy mystic braid was wove,And first my Agnes whisper'd love.
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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If you're trying to turn me into something else? It's easy to see, I'm not down with that.
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Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
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Stat magni nominis umbra.
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But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here.
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I work in L.A. from time to time.
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IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.
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I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
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Everything's always got to be character-based. We know we can't, if we're sitting in the editing room, watch the sequence for more than 20 seconds without a character having a point of view or moving the action forward; my brain just shuts down, or I start thinking about my laundry.
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AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.
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Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.
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To make a perfect t-shirt is hard - all you have is white cotton and fit. that's where experience comes in.
