Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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If you don't take an opponent serious, they surprise you.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.
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They never forgot That even the most dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
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I am at peace with God; my conflict is with man.
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I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.
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Honestly, I am not a huge beauty girl, so I'm pretty low-maintenance, California.
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I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam.
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A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.
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Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A quiet, boring life so no one wants to write a biography. I'm the only writer in history only to have one wife, for instance.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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Poetry cannot take sides except with life.
