Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
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Tone can be as important as text.
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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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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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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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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
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I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
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I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.
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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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Everything I've set out to do, I've achieved, and all the praise goes to God.
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Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
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To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky
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Poetry cannot take sides except with life.
