Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
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Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?
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I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and the Beast' oil paintings. So it's been an ongoing wonderful job.
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary.
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The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
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I think people in electronic music are trying to get these big features: 'Oh my gosh, I'm gonna get the biggest pop star to feature on my track.'
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My son makes me super giddy, especially when he laughs. His laugh makes me laugh like a maniac!
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In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.
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If you have a dream, this is your chance. We don't always have to play it safe because people might think you're weird.
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Life is available to anyone no matter what age. All you have to do is grab it.
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If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.
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Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.
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I don't care how much you're working out; when you go to put on that bikini, you're like, 'Oh no!'
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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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The death of Christ made it possible for God to accept sinful man, and that he has, in fact, done so. Consequently, whatever separation there is between man and the benefits of God's grace is subjective in nature and exists only in man's mind and unregenerate spirit. The message man needs to hear then, is not that he simply has a suggested opportunity for salvation, but that through Christ he has, in fact, already been redeemed to God and that he may enjoy the blessing that are already his through Christ
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Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
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Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.
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Riding trails with your dog restores a bond lost in some evolutionary belch. You travel at the same speed, over the same terrain, neither of you slowing to compensate for the other. You're equal playmates with mud in your teeth.
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So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself
