Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
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You have to follow that next step.
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I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.
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I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.
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I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
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We should just go back to, like, episode 30 and re-break from there and just make it a spaceship. That would be the unexpected reboot of 'Lost.'
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Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.
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The international monetary system is the glue that binds national economies together.
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Smite, Smoot, Be rugged and rough, Smut if smitten Is front-page stuff.
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The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.
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A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.
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The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.
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Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software.
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I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.
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My parents divorced when I was eight; I never really knew my dad, and my mom raised my older sister and brother and me alone. It was challenging.
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Sometimes you go to a film and well, you are not very concentrated. In reading, you have to concentrate, to spend the time it requires in order to feel the experience of the work. You have to put all of yourself there to experience something new and to feel and perceive an atmosphere that is unprecedented.
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I always found when I was reading an interview with an actor that I wasn't interested in their political opinions - I just wanted to know what they'd had for breakfast.
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My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.
