Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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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.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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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.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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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.
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Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is a lot of fun being in the Scissor Sisters.
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Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
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I underestimated the power of 'Diego.'
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I love heels! I especially like heels by Nicholas Kirkwood, Jimmy Choo and Moschino.
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Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.
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Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.
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A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
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All that you can imagine you already know.
