Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.
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Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
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I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
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I love acting.
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Asia is changing, and China is changing. The 'Post' will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba's resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the 'Post' can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
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You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.
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I read James Joyce's short story 'The Dead,' and I love that movie for many reasons. It was the last film I made with my father, and it's emotional for me as well as a movie I'm proud of.
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Paintin they own pictures then they crop me in But I will remain where the top begins
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He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
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Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.
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The New Year has come to us. / God be blessed for it.
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Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
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Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general societal interest; he's got his, and if it's going to bankrupt the state a generation hence, well, as long as they can keep the checks coming till he's dead, it's fine by him.
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The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.
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What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.
