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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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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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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If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.
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He who does not believe that God is above all is either a fool or has no experience of life.
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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.
