Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.
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I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
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I invite her back to my apartment, or as I call it, the 'Death Star.' I'm still working on it, it's not completely operational.
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No one at all understands why it is possible for the plant cell that bears within its substance one of these green chlorophyll bodies to combine certain inorganic elements into nutritious foods, a feat that no human chemist can perform.
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.
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His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.
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God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.
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It dawned on me at some point that our music makes certain people happy - I never thought we'd have that effect and it's really gratifying and humbling. My least favorite is the exhaustion that comes with traveling a lot, the touring related exhaustion. And the crazy thing is that we've all been doing this for years and your body never gets used to it - you always feel messed up. But it's a good problem to have.
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My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one.
