Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns , Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire , Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song .
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.
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When we look at government in Washington or what's happening on Wall Street, we see so much centralization. But really, our goals should be to eliminate and overcome these central institutions. And in recent years we have gained powerful new tools to do this, and most significant among those is the block chain, which is the software behind Bitcoin.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.
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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
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I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
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The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our own fanatical times the critical spirit should tend to disappear.
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When you have an emotion you are recruiting a variety of mechanisms that came in the long history of evolution, long before emotions arose, and those mechanisms all had to do with how an organism manages its life.
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Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.
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If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
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There's just something so special about 'God Made Girls.' It comes from a girl's perspective, and there's nothing like that on radio right now, and so I think that's what made us able to pick that song as a single.
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I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns , Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire , Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song .
