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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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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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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We are what we eat, so I eat as many veggies as I can!
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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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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.
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Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room. You've just got to be in the moment and go with it.
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It is a little weird seeing photographs from parties where you didn't even know a photographer was there.
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How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?
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I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.
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If you have a chance to win the game, you're going to try to go for the game.
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I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust
