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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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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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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I look at what the polls say about attributes. I noticed in 2004 that George W. Bush led John Kerry by double digits for eight straight months on the question of who is more likely to take a position and stick with it.
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Helping Wall Street regain confidence and stability was the last thing an angry public wanted in 2009 after the markets crashed. But without such support, markets can buckle and liquidity can disappear - often for decades, as has been the case in Japan.
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America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.
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So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
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I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.
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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.
