Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes

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Stephen Spender

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• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Age
  • Ideas
  • Class

• You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Times
  • Three
  • Dressed

• I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Important
  • Women
  • Country

• It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Wish
  • Enough
  • Just

• American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • American
  • Problems

• When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Good
  • Good People

• Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Nature
  • Mistakes
  • Goalkeeper

• It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Best
  • Goal

• Armageddon is not a foreign policy.

  

  Madeleine Albright

• Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

• And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • Pain
  • Workplace

• I probably should have a brand, but I think you can't get the best artists to work for you if you're branded. I get the trade-off, and I really would like to be more famous for my work, get more credit for my achievements.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • Work
  • Famous

• There's nothing worse than bad scatting, except maybe bad mouth trumpet. Mouth trumpet may sound like a trumpet, but it's really more like playing a kazoo. The instant you do your solo, the audience has a bit of a chuckle.

  

  Bria Skonberg
  • May
  • Bad

• It is a lot of fun being in the Scissor Sisters.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Fun

• Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Failure

• No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Personal
  • Advantages
  • Frederick Wentworth

• If this drags on to September, October, November, December, we'll have fighters that have not boxed this year, the fighters at the top end are going to be fine but the fighters coming through, small hall fighters, ones starting their careers or those who do not have a sponsorship deal face big concerns.

  

  Eddie Hearn
  • Careers
  • Starting
  • December

• Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Women
  • Power
  • Nature

• Investments are like trains, and if you miss one, don’t worry because another one will come down the line.

  

  Gerry Schwartz
  • Worry
  • Missing
  • Lines

• Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Strength
  • Graceful
  • Elves

• All that you can imagine you already know.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Imagination
  • Knows
  • Imagine