Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.
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The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
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The Life at Conception Act legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has long known - that human life begins at the moment of conception and, therefore, is entitled to legal protection from that point forward.
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The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.
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War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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Is he President of the United States? According to the constitution in order to be eligible for president, you have to be a natural born citizen. He has refused to provide proof that he is, in fact, a natural born citizen and his Kenyan relations say that he was born in Nairobi, at a time when his mother was too young to transmit US citizenship.
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I speak 'with absolute certainty' only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any 'authority' let alone 'divine revelation'!
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I always love wearing Vivienne Westwood. Her dresses just seem to fit me perfectly, and she makes dresses for girls with curves - I love that.
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We are what we eat, so I eat as many veggies as I can!
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Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.
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In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has seemed from the start that the idea as applied to him was more than mere metaphor. He is the first president in my lifetime whom the country felt obligated to remind that he know his place.
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I got into a competition with my brother over who could make better Vine videos.
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I always get so close to a wedding. God has been very kind. You can ask most married men and they will tell you what I mean. But one day my luck will run out. I hope it runs out soon. But more than marriage, having children is on my list, if I can figure out how to have those without marriage.
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I like to start the day with yoga. It's the best way of moving into the day.
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It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.
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The weight really started falling off, and I could see my muscles. It was awesome.
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For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust
