Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

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• When you really start figuring things out as a quarterback, you realize you don't have to be perfect every time, but you do have to be quick and decisive.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
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• I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
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• I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

  

  A. S. Byatt
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• The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.

  

  Randi Weingarten
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• Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.

  

  Jack Ramsay
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• You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.

  

  Jack McCollough
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• 'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.

  

  Adam McKay
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• Dabbing was a way of fashion that turned into a dance.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

  

  Zosia Mamet
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• So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.

  

  Ice T
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• If the Lord - who is the light of all things - vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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• 'You're no help,' he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

  

  Neil Gaiman
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• It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else.

  

  Kay Cannon
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• I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

  

  Kristen Bell
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• The expectation of gradual policy normalization should reduce the likelihood of outsized movements in interest rates.

  

  Jerome Powell
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• I'm in the communications business.

  

  Beeban Kidron
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• One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
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• I always know I'm a country singer, and regardless of where I've fallen into different places with my music, I know that, really, I'm a country singer.

  

  Ronnie Milsap
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• This is becoming a real problem. There's competition to keep costs down and prices low. That comes at the expense of doing due diligence, market research, and having focus groups test products.

  

  Chris Barnes Cannibal Corpse
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• I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• The Palestine I know is a place where Christians and Muslims are equal. My mother, a Muslim village girl, attended a Catholic girls' school in Ramallah, and my refugee husband spent the Second Intifada side by side with his Christian brothers from Bethlehem.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
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• The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Problem
  • Memories
  • Creativity