Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
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Life is too short to blend in.
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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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We shared our father with the world.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
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Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
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We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
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The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare Blaspheme the twisted tendril as a Snare? A Blessing, we should use it, should we not? And if a Curse - why, then, Who set it there?
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Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.
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Black lives do matter, and our lives do hold value.
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Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?
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There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"
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It was a battered yellow Citroën 2CV which had had one careful owner but also three suicidally reckless ones.
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People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.
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Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
